Zbrush metal rivet help

Littlenorwegians

Heya. Making a uboat and I am having some very annoying problems.

Now, What I wanna do is simple. Create these nice, clean, uniform rivets in the mesh. Like, easy lines.

I try it with slice, standard and clay. And it turns out horrible! Utterly putrid to my eyes.

So now, utterly frustrated. I must ask for some help. I'd be eternally grateful.

Lokter

I think something like this would be better off being made in Max/Maya, its a lot of clean, straight lines. You are most likely going to get very blobby panels from zbrush.

Ghogiel

Make an IMM brush of rivets and drag them on.

If you want paneling lines themselves...they can be done with panel loops.

Bubba91873

Model the panel lines and rivets in maya/max or something similar. It will be cleaner.

Butthair

Agreeing with the consensus, model this thing in max or maya. zBrush is good for organic hard surface like soldier armor.

You could still model the details like rivets in zBrush though, set your brush to dots and adjust the spacing, it's in the Stroke menu (if I recall). There's also something that allows you to draw in straight lines, I'm pretty sure it's in the Stroke menu too. I just can remember the name atm, should be obvious though.

Littlenorwegians

OK. Will do it that way.

It's just that I've seen people do impressive hard-surface stuff in Zbrush and I wanted to know. Thanks for making me look into panel loops. Seems neat.