Zbrush, how to apply a certain pattern ?

SANIN

I'm new to Zbrush and I'm trying to make a christmas ham with it's net pattern.
I have no idea what's the easiest or best way to do it, but Surface>Noise seems like a fair option for it.
It's just that no matter how I do it, it never ends up the way I want it.
So, any tips on this?

Crolock

Hello.

You have multiple ways to apply a noise/pattern in zbrush. For a net pattern you can use noise maker.


Make some quick uv using uv master plugin. Then launch noise maker and look for a good pattern or use a custom alpha.

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A pro tip, before you apply your noise is to go in tool / morphtarget / stroreMT, it will store every vertex position, so you can add or remove effet on some part with the morph brush.

cryrid

Two other options that come to mind:

• Radial Symmetry can also make quick work out of this.
• If the basemesh was made out of a sphere that ends with a pole, then the topology should already be in the basic grid pattern. Zmodeling can give every face a nice extrusion for the bumps.