Zbrush - Inflate mesh, but if it collides with something, stop inflating the area that collided?

sr3d

I'm making a braided ponytail.   I want to inflate the braids, but I want the area that begins colliding with the other braids to stop inflating.

Does that make sense?

Inflate with collision detection or something?

musashidan

Not possible. You just have to use a combination of inflate and smooth, and your eye/artistic judgement  

bugo

That would be extremely expensive to do I'd imagine...

sr3d

This is unfortunate.  It seems inefficient to go in by hand, doing it manually. 

cryrid

Perhaps you could inflate it very slowly/gradually, and then once things begin to touch try masking it by AO with a very low spread? 

PolyHertz

If that kind of technology existed, I think the entire games industry would be trying to copy it. We still need simplified versions of models for collision in realtime, doing collision accurately in realtime on meshs as dense as the ones in zbrush is decades away.