Tools such as sculpt and paint can be accessed through this tray.
The standard sculpting tools on their own leave a smooth finish to the model, but by utilizing the stamp and stencil tools you can add irregularities to the mesh that mirrors the permutations of surfaces found in the real world. Choosing from the preset images under the stamp tool, the material is used as a reference for the selected sculpt tool to actually paint the texture on the surface. Anything close to white gives a raised surface while black gives no change at all. The stencil tool has a similar effect, but goes about it differently. Rather than modify the tool tip with the image, the stencil tool uses the viewing plane and the camera to project the texture on to the model. This is an efficient means to articulate the geometry without getting bogged down with the rudimentary workflow of pushing vertex points like in your standard 3D application.
Stamp, stencil, and other utilities can be found on this tray.
Once your model has been sculpted and textured to a point where some color can be applied, Mudbox offers some great tools to paint your digital sculpture. After switching to the paint mode, a paint layer is now used to contain your color information separate from the layers under sculpt mode. Going even further, you can specify what channel type for the layer, like diffuse, specular, gloss, incandescence, bump map, normal map, or reflection map. After choosing the appropriate layer channel, you can go down to the tray to choose paint tools such as Paint Brush, Projection, Airbrush, Dry Brush, and a few more. If you need to adjust the aspects of the color like value or hue, tools like Dodge, Burn, Contrast and Hue can help to fine-tune for better results. And even though you have switched to painting for the time being, it doesn't mean that you have to stay in that mode. Mudbox permits you to jump back and forth between the two modes so that you aren't confined to a rigid workflow.
A mask is applied as red paint and the freeze paint shows up as blue.
