Nomad Sculpt

Name: Nomad Sculpt
Price: 19.99 USD
Rating: 4.8 (14572 reviews)
Author: Hexanomad

Sculpt, paint and create in 3D

$19.99 · In‑App Purchases

15K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

#3
Graphics & Design
Developer

Hexanomad
Language

EN
+ 22 More
Size

308.3
MB

• Sculpting tools Clay, flatten, smooth, mask and many other brushes will let you shape your creation. You can also use the trim boolean cutting tool with lasso, rectangle and other shapes, for hardsurface purposes. • Stroke customization Falloff, alphas, tilings, pencil pressure and other stroke parameters can be customized. You can save and load your tools preset as well. • Painting tools Vertex painting with color, roughness and metalness. You can easily manage all your material presets as well. • Layers Record your sculpting and painting operations in separate layers for easier iteration during the creation process. Both the sculpting and painting changes are recorded. • Multiresolution sculpting Go back and forth between multiple resolution of your mesh for a flexible workflow. • Voxel remeshing Remesh quickly your mesh to get a uniform level of detail. It can be used to quickly sketch a rough shape at the beginning of the creation process. • Dynamic topology Refine locally your mesh under your brush to get an automatic level of detail. You can even keep your layers, as they will be automatically updated! • Decimate Reduce the number of polygons by keeping as many details as possible. • Face Group Segment your mesh into subgroups with the face group tool. • Automatic UV unwrap The automatic UV unwrapper can use face groups to control the unwrapping process. • Baking You can transfer vertex data such as color, roughness, metalness and small scaled detail in to textures. You can also do the opposite, transfering textures data into vertex data or layers. • Primitive shape Cylinder, torus, tube, lathe and other primitives can be used to quickly start new shapes from scratch. • PBR rendering Beautiful PBR rendering by default, with lighting and shadows. You can always switch to matcap for a more standard shading for sculpting purposes. • Post processing Screen Space Reflection, Depth of Field, Ambient Occlusion, Tone mapping, etc • Export and Import Supported formats include glTF, OBJ, STL or PLY files. • Interface Easy-to-use interface, designed for mobile experience. Customization is possible as well! • Quad Remesher (separate in-app purchase only) Remesh your object automatically with a quad dominant mesh that follows the mesh curvatures. It supports guides, face groups and density painting.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

15K Ratings

My ride or die sculpting app
Sep 15
CastilloDePaz
I will not be convinced to return to zBrush when Nomad exists. I’ve championed this app to several game dev friends who enjoy sculpting and I will continue to do so. The app itself is amazing, reasonably priced one time buy, solid features, UI that is intuitive and never overwhelming, and also great documentation. The Quad remesher add-on is worth the price if you want to export out decently cleaned up meshes, it’s not perfect but it’s the same result as most other 3D software with less hassle. The app runs great even on a gen3 iPad, Ive had very few crashes only due to accidentally remeshing to an extremely high poly-count. Auto-save has saved me many a times from this. The UI never feels cramped even on the smaller 11in iPad. Anything experimental or buggy is always labelled so!! You actually get a chance to save or backup vs blindly using a tool that could mess up your work or crash the app.The wants: I know it’s a sculpting app but I really wish there were some hard surface modeling options! There are times I want to make pieces that are less organic and I have to swap to a different software (Maya) to import it in. Maybe it’s a skill/knowledge issue on my part, if it was a Nomad add-on or adjacent app I would buy it considering the positive experience I’ve had with Nomad itself. A turntable export feature would also be nice for final displays, recording your screen can only capture so much in terms of resolution. Customizable tool kits would also be nice in order to keep brush groups together and lessen scrolling/searching in the single side bar.
My ride or die sculpting app
Sep 15
CastilloDePaz

I will not be convinced to return to zBrush when Nomad exists. I’ve championed this app to several game dev friends who enjoy sculpting and I will continue to do so. The app itself is amazing, reasonably priced one time buy, solid features, UI that is intuitive and never overwhelming, and also great documentation. The Quad remesher add-on is worth the price if you want to export out decently cleaned up meshes, it’s not perfect but it’s the same result as most other 3D software with less hassle. The app runs great even on a gen3 iPad, Ive had very few crashes only due to accidentally remeshing to an extremely high poly-count. Auto-save has saved me many a times from this. The UI never feels cramped even on the smaller 11in iPad. Anything experimental or buggy is always labelled so!! You actually get a chance to save or backup vs blindly using a tool that could mess up your work or crash the app.The wants: I know it’s a sculpting app but I really wish there were some hard surface modeling options! There are times I want to make pieces that are less organic and I have to swap to a different software (Maya) to import it in. Maybe it’s a skill/knowledge issue on my part, if it was a Nomad add-on or adjacent app I would buy it considering the positive experience I’ve had with Nomad itself. A turntable export feature would also be nice for final displays, recording your screen can only capture so much in terms of resolution. Customizable tool kits would also be nice in order to keep brush groups together and lessen scrolling/searching in the single side bar.
Overall Amazing and intuitive, but lacks a few key features.
10/18/2021
MantacidTech
Let me start with the positives. This software has so many capabilities that other similar softwares don’t. It is easy to work with, very customizable, and produces great quality renders at high numbers of faces. Easily the best software out there for the IPad Pro. One minor issue is that the software lacks the ability to more finely control the topology of models. Often i will find formations of quads that are unnecessary, or that meet in weird ways and create visible seams on my models upon smoothing. However, using dynamic topology is an easy workaround if the character you’re sculpting doesn’t need to be animated.Materials could also use more customization options, and UVs would also be nice, but the main issue i have with this software is how much battery it drains. It drains battery so fast that even when plugged into the wall, the charging cannot keep up with the power demands.Overall an amazing software (nearly on par with some professional sculpting softwares ive worked with before) but is not very optimized in terms of power usage.
Overall Amazing and intuitive, but lacks a few key features.
10/18/2021
MantacidTech

Let me start with the positives. This software has so many capabilities that other similar softwares don’t. It is easy to work with, very customizable, and produces great quality renders at high numbers of faces. Easily the best software out there for the IPad Pro. One minor issue is that the software lacks the ability to more finely control the topology of models. Often i will find formations of quads that are unnecessary, or that meet in weird ways and create visible seams on my models upon smoothing. However, using dynamic topology is an easy workaround if the character you’re sculpting doesn’t need to be animated.Materials could also use more customization options, and UVs would also be nice, but the main issue i have with this software is how much battery it drains. It drains battery so fast that even when plugged into the wall, the charging cannot keep up with the power demands.Overall an amazing software (nearly on par with some professional sculpting softwares ive worked with before) but is not very optimized in terms of power usage.
Great aoftware, with some issues
09/28/2024
wolf33n
First of all, I’ll start positives. I have been bouncing around on 3-D software for a few months now, and I’ve found all of them very difficult to learn or they just simply don’t have the features I’m looking for. Blender Is great but it requires too much time and focused to learn for me, fusion 360 is decent, but it doesn’t have a sculpt feature, ect. Nomad has made the process of learning 3-D design, super easy and I’ve already made a few decent pieces! The interface is simple yet it has a lot of really good tools and functions.Now for the improvements that could be made. There are definitely some bugs in this app, including ones that occasionally affect the sculpting tools. They will either indent or add texture when they are supposed to do the opposite, etc. these bugs often require me to save the design and then restart the whole app. Also, occasionally, when I add an object, it just glitches out and I don’t have access to the. “Gizmo” feature, which basically allows me to edit and alter the shape entirely. I am also forced to restart for this glitch.Other than being buggy occasionally, I’m really love this software, and if you are a beginner or just looking for something more simple to use, I definitely recommend this.
Great aoftware, with some issues
09/28/2024
wolf33n

First of all, I’ll start positives. I have been bouncing around on 3-D software for a few months now, and I’ve found all of them very difficult to learn or they just simply don’t have the features I’m looking for. Blender Is great but it requires too much time and focused to learn for me, fusion 360 is decent, but it doesn’t have a sculpt feature, ect. Nomad has made the process of learning 3-D design, super easy and I’ve already made a few decent pieces! The interface is simple yet it has a lot of really good tools and functions.Now for the improvements that could be made. There are definitely some bugs in this app, including ones that occasionally affect the sculpting tools. They will either indent or add texture when they are supposed to do the opposite, etc. these bugs often require me to save the design and then restart the whole app. Also, occasionally, when I add an object, it just glitches out and I don’t have access to the. “Gizmo” feature, which basically allows me to edit and alter the shape entirely. I am also forced to restart for this glitch.Other than being buggy occasionally, I’m really love this software, and if you are a beginner or just looking for something more simple to use, I definitely recommend this.
Incredible. Auto-save could be better.
12/23/2022
Dheugjejdfjriggjsbf
Really well done. I find it much more approachable than ZBrush when I tried it way back when. This app is quite powerful with what it can do, and isn’t a massive overload of complexity. Only one thing that bothers me is when dealing with primitives, before ‘validate’ (strange word to use but ok), my tendency is to try to scroll the toolbar on the right vertically as I would scroll the usual modeling toolbar. Unfortunately this drags & rearranges the tools without any long press/jiggle or anything. I’d prefer long press to rearrange as is pretty standard UI design practice (and as is also the case for entries the Scene panel in Nomad).Update: auto-save should just happen silently without a popup by default. Save a recoverable file that can be reloaded on launch if a crash was detected, like how MS Excel might do it, for example. If a crash was detected, prompt the user, explain that the app didn’t close properly; show a preview of the last auto-save and ask if they want to reload it. Unfortunately one of my kids was getting into Nomad, but found auto-save annoying & disabled it (not knowing you could just silence the popup), and lost her work due to a crash… so now she “hates” it. Ugh.
Incredible. Auto-save could be better.
12/23/2022
Dheugjejdfjriggjsbf

Really well done. I find it much more approachable than ZBrush when I tried it way back when. This app is quite powerful with what it can do, and isn’t a massive overload of complexity. Only one thing that bothers me is when dealing with primitives, before ‘validate’ (strange word to use but ok), my tendency is to try to scroll the toolbar on the right vertically as I would scroll the usual modeling toolbar. Unfortunately this drags & rearranges the tools without any long press/jiggle or anything. I’d prefer long press to rearrange as is pretty standard UI design practice (and as is also the case for entries the Scene panel in Nomad).Update: auto-save should just happen silently without a popup by default. Save a recoverable file that can be reloaded on launch if a crash was detected, like how MS Excel might do it, for example. If a crash was detected, prompt the user, explain that the app didn’t close properly; show a preview of the last auto-save and ask if they want to reload it. Unfortunately one of my kids was getting into Nomad, but found auto-save annoying & disabled it (not knowing you could just silence the popup), and lost her work due to a crash… so now she “hates” it. Ugh.

• Poly Haven - 3D models from Poly Haven in the Files presets - Choose 1K, 2K or 4K before a texture or model download • Shapes - Band: Extend keeps the full value past the far guide, Flip swaps the guides - Mask: Preview shows the mask on the mesh while you edit the shape - Settings: Fill and Outline opacity, and a color per tool • Extract - Interior: Relax keeps the sculpted details, Smooth smooths them away - Borders only: Wall smoothing, with an option to keep hard corners • Repeaters - Randomize: add the same amount at each copy instead of a random one - Radial and surface repeaters: Alternate turns every other copy - Tube warp fits every side of a surface face, its limits show in the viewport • Curves and primitives - Long press on handles: turn it off or change its delay - Bevel on caps and text keeps sharp profile corners, in its own face group • Sculpt - DynTopo removes tiny tangled pieces - Voxel remeshing: By Groups remeshes each face group on its own • Import and export - Export: Join copies merges each object with its repeater copies - OBJ import with Keep topology keeps the file's normals, Material > Reset normals removes them • Interface - Scene list: groups and cameras stand out - Long press a material to rename or delete it - History replay: smoother camera

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Seller: Hexanomad
Size: 308.3 MB
Category: Graphics & Design
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

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Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

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Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.

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