Making knots

ShockInfinite

Hey everyone,

This character that I'm working on has a karate belt. I'm a bit stuck as to how to actually recreate that because it has a knot.

Attached is an image of the character and my actual wip. I'm doing this in zbrush and just realized that I posted the wrong reference of the character. My apologizes.




Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Make a separate subtool for that knot, and sculpt the knot as a separate object. Then place the object where you want the knot to be.

ShockInfinite

Thanks Jade!

So could I mask out the loop for the belt, create the knot and then put the other part of the belt?

Is that a method in order to use your suggestion?

Thanks again!

Brian "Panda" Choi

If that means you making a new separate subtool. sure, w/e is quickest.

ShockInfinite

Thanks man

rino

i actually go through painful process in 3ds max using splines. but as panda said, sculpting it is the quickest way.

ShockInfinite

Thanks CurtisWS

Torch

I would recommend sculpting the knot as well - if you started from a sphere and used some of the clip brushes/dam standard for cutting, you could get some pretty nice results (although if you were going to use a spline for it then Max would probably be the best way to go, the spline tools in that app are awesome)

arcitecht

I would cheese it myself by just sculpting what you see there. Mask+extract, then dynamesh, pull out the ends, build up the knot (it can be really nasty, dont worry about clean geo yet), then zremesh, sculpt, zremesh, rinse and repeat until you have a nice reasonable low-poly mesh with the basic knot shape. Then you can add subdivision levels and sculpt it out.

I also do this for other troublesome areas like collars. Zremesher is really nice for getting good topology you wont be having to fight and subd into oblivion.

ShockInfinite

I was tinkering with it and I have the straps but still no knot.

I'm a bit of zbrush noob.

Also,

How do I simply paste images rather than attach them?

Torch

You need to have your image uploaded, and can then use the picture icon (the small one above the message window with the mountain and sun pic) to add the link of that image. I prefer to use something like Imgur to host images and link the [IMG]tags from there. Don't worry about being a ZB noob, its got a steep learning curve and you gotta start somewhere You should add some thickness to those straps as they're paper thin, otherwise you'll be pulling bits through from the other side of the strap that you don't want. While sculpting if you go to the brush menu > Auto Masking > and then turn on Backface masking, that should help reduce the problem.[/img]

ShockInfinite

Thanks torch!

So I'm trying to tackle the knots again