Making curved tubes/wires?

JDunay

I would like to be able to create curved tubes in Zbrush.

I've been looking all over for a tutorial but had really no luck at all finding one. I've seen one or two timelapses but still cant tell whats going on.

Does anyone have a good method that they would be willing to share?

Thanks!

cryrid

Are you looking for help creating them with the aptly named curved tube brushes, or are you looking to customize the tube through the Insert mesh/ multi mesh system?

JDunay

hmmm, good question.

I'd like to know how the tubes on this gun were made.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103229

and also how he got that texture on them. Sorry for my lack of a better explanation of what i want. Pretty new to zbrush so I dont quite know the lingo just yet.

Autarkis

Those tubes are most likely poly modeled, from splines or nurbs. If you look on page two of that thread, he's showing you how he modeled the criss-cross pattern in maya and bend it to form a cylinder with it.
Seems he only used zbrush for the block in of that gun

cryrid

I would model a small section of it, almost treating it like a seamless texture. You can poly model it or maybe even just load a cylinder in Zbrush and use noise maker. From there I would recommend looking into the tutorials and documentation using the insert mesh / tri-parts. The pdf files can be found in the install directory, or online on pixologic's wiki.

JDunay

awesome! ill take a look. Thanks