Face Zbrush

[Leroy Turcios]

Backfacemasking will only work for the Mask Pen with the Dots or Freehand stroke. So you have to set the DrawSize large and draw over the mesh like that rather than dragging a rectangle from the outside.

In Maya 2012 have an object, use goz to send the object to zbrush.

Object arrives ok, but, one of the polygon faces is missing.

If I go to display properties and check double sided the face appears.

Have noticed when sent back to Maya this one polygon renders slightly diffent ( slight shading difference)

Not a major problem but a pain the ass.

Thank you.

Sounds like you may have to dig a little deeper. Try running Mesh/Cleanup with Lamina faces and Nonmanifold geometry checked. If you check Select matching polygons, it will select any areas with issues. Then you can go in an see if you have extra faces or verts. You can also try merging verts in the area.

also, to view your normals: sekect Display/Polygons/Custom Polygon Display Options. In this menu check face normals and Apply. If nomals are too large or small you can adjust normal size. Now you will be able to see your normals and direction. Select the face with the wrong normal and go to Normal/Reverse

the biggest issue ive found with Zbrush is the lack of selection tools and minipulation restrictions.

It would be amazing to be able to select a face or multipul faces, vertex or multipul vertex by simply clicking on the faces or vertex.

Im real picky about keeping my low resolution geomatry organized and even, so i move alot of single pixels and single faces early in the stage. and even with 450 polycount models, Zbrush is easier to work with sense its got so many weighted brushes.

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Hi folks!

Im looking for a tool/addon that can project all faces from the low-poly to high-poly mesh similar to "project all " function in Zbrush. In the moment i have to activate snapping, select face by face and slightly move them to snap on high poly.

There are couple ways to do it, in fact I sometimes need to do that. However it is a bit involved since you need to use Animation Nodes or Sverchok to merge the meshes on the fly. 2.92 (in alpha now which you can download ) has a new geometry nodes system which you can use for the same affect.

I still like the Animation Nodes path since I can just merge all the objects under a collection as the shrinkwrap target. The geometry nodes does not support collections as of now. Maybe they will implement that in the future.

Yes you still need to use the shrinkwrap modifier, the methods I outlined above is for merging meshes into one on the fly. Basically you do not merge your originals, the node setup will do it for you in a non-destructive way.

Hello! I recently went through the Long Chain Rigging tutorial that was hosted by Digital Art Live (wonderful job, SY, by the way!), and one of the very first steps after modelling out my chain, belt, rope, or whatever is to import it into DAZ with existing face groups (or, in Blender, vertex groups). I primarily use ZBrush for almost all of my modelling, howevevr, and I'm assuming this can be done with either polygroups or subtools, but I do not know how. I've not been able to find any tutorials online with how to do this.

For reference, I'm trying to rig up a belt from one end to the other, with a buckle on the far end. Nothing fancy, just a strip that I want to be able to bend up and down every 3 polys or so... any thoughts? Is it possible to do in ZBrush and imort in, or would I be best off simply using the Geo tool inside of DAZ to achieve this?

Thank you for your response! Ok, that's probably where I went wrong... I was using GoZ to send it back. How do I ensure they are in order? Or are you saying that part needs to be done in DAZ? I'm not at my machine now, but I'll try it tonight to see if I can stumble through it.

An example, sculpting a human ear. It has to thin, imagine what gonna happen when an SSS shader will be applied. Right? Not very easy. A careful sculpting is needed there, front faces only. On any sculpting app I tried.

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