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Anonymous12/06/25, 15:30No.1023004
How far can I get sculpting only with a mouse instead of a dedicated pad?
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Anon12/06/25, 17:05No.1023011
Good drawing tablets are really cheap nowadays compared to two decades ago.
That being said you can get really far but at a certain level it's literally just a waste of time.
For example in the really early sculpting stages I still use the mouse while most of my peers shake their head over this while using their tablet even when still adding geometry primitives and entering numbers.
In the really early stages when I'm putting down the rough 3D sketch, dimensions etc I use the mouse since to me it feels way quicker and I hate handling normal tasks with the pen. In this stage there's no pen pressure relevant yet either.Once I have all the base stuff done I reach for the pen and do the details with it and of course painting too.
So in your case at least checking if sculpting is something you'd enjoy is definitely possible with mouse only.
As I've mentioned before, it only becomes an issue once you start doing details since the mouse is digital and you will lose tons of time redoing strokes over and over again until you've reached the result you were going for instead of achieving the detail in one go simply by having the right pressure put in your pen.
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Anon12/06/25, 17:11No.1023012
I only sculpt with mouse, shit to print mostly so it can be done, it is a matter of preference, texturing on the other hand improves a lot with a drawing tablet, I have a wacom one that I haven't touched in years for these things too.
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Anon12/06/25, 17:15No.1023013
You can get surprisingly far even after shooting yourself in the foot, but why would you shoot yourself in the foot?
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Anon12/06/25, 18:07No.1023019
get a fucking job, a medium tablet is $70
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Anon12/06/25, 18:30No.1023020
Do you somehow think the higher functions of sculping are gonna be locked without a mouse?
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Anon01/09/26, 01:51No.1024396
You can get very far with modeling low to mid poly and flat shaded. But that's modeling, not sculpting.