Autodesk MudBox 2009 13-Month License Student/Faculty/Staff Windows DVD Educational Software

Features

User Interface

Become productive in hours, rather than weeks with the intuitive Mudbox user interface.

• For traditional artists with no previous 3D experience, tools that closely mimic the behavior of their real-world counterparts are quickly understood and easily adopted.
• Work with tools such as brushes, stamps, and stencils to quickly sculpt and create lifelike textures.
• Use the Layer editor to organize your work.
• Maximize your workspace by hiding UI elements and using standard hotkeys to manipulate the camera.

Cameras

Mudbox features innovative, accelerated camera manipulation, for excellent interactive performance with even the densest meshes.

• Use multiple real-time cameras within a scene, including true perspective and orthographic cameras.
• Bookmark your camera positions.
• Model using reference images: each camera has its own image plane.
• Use Smart Focus to position the camera based on the cursor position and brush size.
• Manipulate your camera with trackball-style controls.
• Use the same keyboard shortcuts for Mudbox cameras as those that are used for cameras in Autodesk® Maya® software.

Display

Work interactively in an environment in which high-res 3D models retain their subtlety, realism, and detail.

• Apply one or more image maps to any object, independent of the other objects in the scene.
• Use smooth shading mode to get a display more representative of the limit surface.
• Interactively view multiple texture channels (including bump and reflection) at the same time.
• Interactively view multiple maps and multiple materials in the scene.
• Work in real time with models that properly display advanced lighting (including HDRI-based lighting) and shadows.
• Incorporate advanced display options into your presentation, including ambient occlusion, depth of field, and tone mapping.

Sculpt Layers

Store different detail passes, design directions, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers.

• Mirror or flip the detail stored in one or more layers.
• Edit nondestructively: Mudbox delivers paintable masks.
• Quickly duplicate, merge, flatten, and reorder layers.
• Precisely blend layers using interactive multiplier sliders and layer masks.
• Use layers to store libraries of morph targets.

Advanced Digital Sculpting

High-quality brushes, stencils, and curves let you quickly "sculpt" your geometry into the 3D model you envision.

3D Brushes

• Use intelligently designed default brushes or quickly tailor them for custom behavior and performance.
• Choose from a number of base brush types, including
  • Sculpt brush-enables you to create complex forms with great control
  • Flatten brush-enables you to quickly create planes and wipe away detail
  • Wax brush-enables you to easily fill in areas
• Accurately shape your brush tips with falloff curves and stamps. A sharp falloff curve will cut an accurate, sharp stroke into the geometry with no soft stroke profiles.

Workflow

• Sculpt both sides of topologically symmetrical models simultaneously-even when they are in an asymmetrical pose-with the powerful tangent space mirroring functionality.
• Use curves as guides for brush strokes.
• Use image stamps to quickly brush (in 3D) a detailed texture directly into your mesh.
• Quickly add high-quality detail through mesh displacement. Use 8-, 16-, or 32-bit images to displace your mesh; Mudbox even supports displacement using multiple maps at one time.

Texture Painting and Assignment

Quickly and easily paint multiple diffuse, specular, reflection, and bump textures across multiple high-resolution maps on your 3D models.

• Selectively paint reference images onto the model from a particular viewpoint. Using the new Projection brush, you can project paint onto the model from screen space.
• Paint hero characters with ease: Mudbox supports the painting of multiple maps on multiple meshes.
• Paint both sides of your model simultaneously with the familiar symmetry workflow.
• Paint and display a different texture for each UV square unit tile.
• Use the intuitive layer editor to easily manage multiple paint layers. You can select, blend, and organize several images for each texture channel.

Texture Baking

With its robust texture baking capabilities, Mudbox solves one of the most common bottlenecks in production pipelines: baking of normal and displacement maps.

• Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes. Detail can be baked into 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps.
• Generate smooth, high-quality maps using extraction options designed to address issues related to poly faceting by extracting between the limit surfaces of the given meshes.
• Displace your meshes using multiple floating point maps.
• Bake normal maps that are compatible with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk® 3ds Max® software.

General Workflow

Mudbox performance is renowned, with tools organized in a familiar, intuitive manner.

• Work in real time even on 3D models that are fully subdivided into tens of millions of high-quality polygons.
• Manipulate the camera using conventional camera controls-to maximize your workspace and reduce "back and forth" workflows.
• Streamline your workflow through tools such as the Hover Pick functionality and hotkeys.
• Use asymmetrical mirroring to streamline the process of working on posed or asymmetrical models.
• Work on one mesh in the context of others: Mudbox supports multiple meshes within the scene.
• Use the built-in image browser-with full support for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit images-to view reference images and quickly assign them to stamps, stencils, or camera image planes.

System Requirements

Software
The 32-bit version of Autodesk® Mudbox™ 2009 software is supported on the following operating systems:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP2
• Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business, SP1

The 64-bit version of Mudbox 2009 software is supported on the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, SP2
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business, SP1

Mudbox 2009 documentation is compatible with any of the following web browsers:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
• Mozilla Firefox® 2.0 or higher

Hardware

Get a list of qualified hardware to run Mudbox 2009.

At a minimum, the 32-bit version of Mudbox 2009 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 (or equivalent) processor
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• 650 MB free hard drive space (2 GB recommended)
• Ethernet adapter or wireless Internet card
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
• Three-button mouse or qualified Wacom® tablet
• DVD-ROM drive

At a minimum, the 64-bit version of Mudbox 2009 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon® 64, or AMD Opteron® processor
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• 650 MB free hard drive space (2 GB recommended)
• Ethernet adapter or wireless Internet card
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• Three-button mouse or qualified Wacom tablet
• DVD-ROM drive

Return Policy

Computer Products for Education (‘CPE’) can accept returns on most items within 14 days of delivery for a full product refund provided that the product is unopened and that you have first obtained a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number prior to returning the product to CPE. Software that has been opened and is defective may be exchanged for a replacement item of the same title and platform only. If the return is a direct result of an error by CPE, CPE will pay the return shipping costs. Outside of 14 days from delivery, defective products must be returned directly to the manufactuer according to the manufacturer's warranty and cannot be returned to CPE.

Any product which includes the phrase 'No Returns' in the product description is not eligible to be returned and may only be exchanged if defective upon arrival.

A Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number must ALWAYS accompany all returns. To obtain your RMA number, please call our customer service team at (800) 679-7007. Products returned without obtaining an RMA number may be REFUSED or subject to a 15% restocking fee at the discretion of CPE.

When returning items to CPE with a valid RMA number, you must ship via a traceable insurable carrier. We recommend using UPS or the U.S. Postal Service with tracking number/delivery confirmation and insurance on the shipment. Please use the original shipping box. All original product parts are required for return, including product packaging.

Due to manufacturer restrictions, we cannot accept returns of the following items:

• Any Autodesk, Avid, and Quark products that have been opened cannot be returned.
• Any item that has been discontinued by the manufacturer.
• Recordable CDs/DVDs, Ink Cartridges, Paper, or Toner for Fax Machines.
• Any item returned more than 20 days after delivery.
• Any item that is not in its original condition.
• Any item returned without a RMA number.
• Any item returned to locations other than the return shipping address specified by CPE upon issuance of the RMA number.

CPE is authorized by the manufacturers to sell products at educational discounts and must abide by the return policies set forth by the manufacturers.

If you have any questions concerning our Return Policy, please call our customer service team at 800-679-7007 or send and email to support@educational-software.com.