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Inflate tool for Dynamic Topology creates extra geometry that blobs out the backside of the mesh.
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System Information
OSX 10.9.1

Blender Version
I noticed the issue using build 54ebaad and confirmed it for the official 2.69.0 r60991 release as well.

Short description of error

Create a plane, go to Sculpt, activate Dynamic then set the Inflate/Deflate brush to 1.0.
Draw out a few strokes, and you should now expect to see messy blobs of geometry built up on the backside of the mesh.
For me this has worked every time I tried to do it. I reset to factory defaults for both builds and it still happens.

One quick test showed that the tumors that form can end up having an absurdly high poly count.
On an area that only had about 5000 triangles, the extra blobs that were formed made up about 35000 triangles.

I tried to attach a .blend file but I received an error message that the file size limit was exceeded. (.blend ~7.5MB)

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marc dion (marcclintdion) raised the priority of this task from to 90.
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I could be wrong but I don't think its a bug, its just that the inflate brush expands faces based on there normal, so as soon as dynamic topology creates a face pointing downward, it goes crazy with the opposing normals.using the smooth brush frequently during the sculpt helps prevent this.

I find that the inflate brush works best on manifold meshes, for a flat plane, I'd use the draw brush to block out the shape, then refine it with the other brushes.

hope that helps...

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 30.Jan 8 2014, 5:07 PM

We really need a .blend file to reproduce the issue. If it's too big you could try uploading on pasteall, or removing parts of the mesh or other data in the .blend file that does not influence the bug.

I'll do the paste all thing. For future reference, what is the file size limit for this site?

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) raised the priority of this task from 30 to 50.Jan 22 2014, 5:29 PM

The limit is 5mb. I can confirm the problem, I'm not sure how difficult it is to fix but the random flipped faces seems like they shouldn't be happening.

No problem, will take a look later today or tomorrow.

Antonis Ryakiotakis (psy-fi) lowered the priority of this task from 50 to Normal.Apr 8 2014, 5:21 PM
Antonis Ryakiotakis (psy-fi) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Duplicate.May 29 2014, 12:33 PM

✘ Merged into T35100.