[Russell Sobie]

When painting with stencils, logos in particular. I get really low resolution effect. Now i have tried matching the stencil size to the map size. Different layers size/types and cannot get them to look smooth. My current work around has been get the placement right in Mudbox then get the high quality logos done in photoshop. This has been driving me nuts. Any ideas?

You can try Igor's 8k solution, but I've been happy working in 4K and down rezing to 2k in Photoshop when I have everything done. I use 4K textures for all stencils too, and make the logos as big as needed to look smooth inside Mudbox. It may be too fast in my timelapses, but you can probably see I put a dozen or so things on a single 4K square for one stencil and they all come out looking okay.

I've also found that if you hover over the point on the car you want to paint on (logos or otherwise) and hit F to "Focus", it'll adjust the near and far clip plane in Mudbox so that you can paint more accurately on the surface in question. Then just zoom in as close as you can and adjust the stencil to fit.

Your solution of just roughing in logos in Mudbox and then doing them up right in Photoshop WILL work, but then you either have to stick to putting logos on flat UV areas of the map OR get really good with warp transformations.