How do I paint this - Zbrush

Cube Republic

Hi,

I'm making some river pilings in zbrush.



First I made barnacle and limpet shells, did a zgrab to make alpha masks for brushes.

Barnacle brush test by Cube Republic, on Flickr


The problem I'm foreseeing is polypainting. Can anyone advice me how I can keep the shells as separate objects. I don't wish to make an insert brush, because I think the mesh would get really heavy with hundreds of barnacles.

sprunghunt

You should be able to set the brush you paint with to put down a color at the same time as you apply the alphas of the barnacles.

m4dcow

Also you could make insert mesh brushes to do this and keep them separate.

Cube Republic

m4dcow wrote: »

Also you could make insert mesh brushes to do this and keep them separate.

You're right. I was getting confused between decimation master and zremesher. I've got handleable meshes now that don't look like crap.