ZBrush: Mirroring Geometry?

Spacey · Mar 2006

I'm playing around in ZBrush and I hide most of my model to work on the left arm. When I unhide everything I find the other arm hasn't updated with the left one even though I had X Symmetry on.

Is there a way to mirror the geometry over so the arms match?
Also is there a button I can push or workflow I can follow so the geometry updates when it's hidden?

I will tackle this beast known as ZBrush!

ironbearxl · Mar 2006

did you try to recenter the pivot?

JordanW · Mar 2006

mask off the side you want to pull the detail from (it should be the 'blacked off' part' then go to too>deformation>smart resymmetry

MoP · Mar 2006

Yep, what Tinman said, also make sure you have the pivot recentred in the model (Shift-P) before running Smart Resym otherwise you'll find the mirroring goes all screwy.

Spacey · Mar 2006

Huzzah!! Thanks guys!

Mongrelman · Mar 2006

Also make sure you have the model rotated the right way. I had a model that was produced with multimarkers and it rotated the final model, meaning to work on the 'left' and have that mirrored on the 'right' I had to turn on 'z' symmetry. Smart resym will mirror along x. If you press x and the icon shows front and back of the model, go to the preview window (in Tools if I remember correctly) and rotate it there.

MoP · Mar 2006

Lupus, actually you can make Smart Resym mirror along X, Y or Z axis, look for the little dark box to the right of the button with tiny X Y Z text, you can click those on or off to highlight them. It's just that X is the default.

Mongrelman · Mar 2006

Ah ok, cheers, never saw that hehe.

ZBrush: Mirroring Geometry?

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