Nomad Sculpt

Hexanomad

In-app purchases

About this app

This is a trial version, there is a one time permanent in-app-purchase to unlock everything:
The limited features are:
- undo/redo limited to 4 actions
- one layer per object
- no export
- limited internal project management (cannot re-open project)

• 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!

Ratings and reviews

It seems like a decent sculpting program. However, just like it's competitor Sculpt+, it's paywalled, which makes it tough to decide which to go with. To the developers, I'd recommend giving free users the chance to do some more things, maybe after watching an ad. As a new digital sculpter, it's especially a pain not being able to import models. For beginner sculpters like me, it may be best to just stick to Blender on a PC while learning.

Really really good app. I really wish that it wasn't trying to open itself whenever I use a file explorer. In Samsung My Files, if I was to try and open a .kra (krita file) this app opens instead. I'll do some more research as it's likely something I've set up wrong, but this app seems to do that with a ton of file types it doesn't support. Thank you for putting so much work on getting keyboard shortcuts, mouse support, pen, etc. The extra inputs makes this app super dynamic.

Super easy to use! This actually became my staple 3D software and way easier and cheaper than zbrush when i just need to do something easy and not over the top complex. I think that nomad, and apps like it that I haven't tried, really revolutionised how 3D sculpting can be incorporated into out daily life on the go where I don't always want or can sit in front of my workstation. Besides, a sculpting session on the train, in a meeting or on the couch is just too sweet.

What’s new

render: fix normal map rendering where there is skew and non uniform scale
render: better smooth normal and tangent, especially when strong skew and non uniform scale is present
bake: normal baking improved when skew and non uniform scale is present
subsurface: fix scattering effect
obj: fix normal map import and export
operation: add global mesh operation menu
curve: add spiral option to curve repeater
material: toggling embed texture doesn’t force or delete alpha on existing materials