trouble sculpting unevenly tesselated models..

[kurgan]

When I have an unevenly tesselated model and bring it into mudbox.

The I need to set smooth uvs/subdivide uvs to make it subdivide nicely.

But when I sculpt a higher subdivision level, it cascades modelling down the levels, including the original level, here points gets moved quite a bit (I assume it is automatic smoothing/relaxing that causes havoc on an unevenly tesselated model) 

So suddenly Im seeing horrible texturestretching..

Is there some way to lock the base mesh or turn of the cascading effect?

[kurgan]

seems like turning off *smooth positions* fixes the problem..

[kurgan]

but I think what would be really nice, would be a functionality where you could lock a level (and below?)

so that the model would stay unchanged..

and/or an option to make the uvs follow the distortion of the base mesh, so you dont get that dreadfull texturestretching?

[santd]

Hello Kurgan,

Thank you for posting to The Area Forums. I'm glad to hear that you were able to find a solution to the issue. As far the changes you would like to see in the software, I would recommend suggesting a feature at the following link:

http://mudboxfeedback.autodesk.com/forums/158904-ideas-for-mudbox-forum

Cheers,