Post #599241 by Gene S Morgan on Mon, Jul 25, 2011 7:17 PM

Thor..... Sculptris like other 3D software needs lots of resources. The more memory the better. But, also some computers are more suited for use for 3D. It is often due to the graphics card. My older laptop has trouble like yours. As others suggest, new drivers may help. But saving and restarting your computer may help because it starts things fresh with no other software running. It is not a program that plays well with others.

Your problem may be that you are just playing too long and the detail becomes more than your computer can handle. Your image is made up of triangles and when you sculpt more triangles are added. Before you do anything hit the W button. You can see the triangles now because that is the wireframe mode. You can go back by hitting the button again. Do some sculpting and hit the button again. Lots of new smaller triangles and the number at the bottom left of the page gets bigger. That number can get real big, maybe in the millions. The bigger it gets the more resources you use. By reduce I meant the two reduce buttons in the tools area. One can be used as a brush to reduce triangles in some areas. You lose a little detail that way, but not much if you do it carefully. With the other one you can reduce in a selected area. It is a little more work than I like doing, but cheaper than buying a new computer.

You can do what you would like to do with symmetry. Keep it on as long as you like and change it when you want to do some detail on one side or the other. You just can't go back. If you do the program will try to make everything symmetrical again and mess up all your work. Just make sure you are done with symmetry before you switch it off and you should be OK.

Cyber Clay ...... I like that ... and play dough ... I get that too .... Gene