flesh and mechanics

PeterK

I've seen some models that have a mix of flesh and mechanical parts, interated. meaning one is coming out of the other, and the flesh is wrapped around or into the machine. How do you guys achieve this effect? can you load 2 models into zbrush, so as to let me scult the flesh around the flesh? what tricks are there for this?

Rwolf

Zbrush only supports 1 model at a time. what you can do is merge the objects, and mask of the metal parts and sculpt the flesh.

PeterK

if they're interwoven, it's kind if hard to draw a mask on any particular mesh bit. You can get pretty damn close, but there is always ugliness. any other thougths?

Daz

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it's kind if hard to draw a mask on any particular mesh bit.

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Zbrush has several different ways to hide mesh parts. By UV shells is an obvious one.

PeterK

oh, good idea. that solves that

tacit math

subdivide the parts you're gonna sculpt before you get them into z. or hide the mechanical bits before you subdivide in z. you'll end up having less levels to work with. and you'll likely take a bit of a performance hit. but it's better than cranking up the res on shit you're not gonna sculpt. can't be helped. polygroups > auto groups will recognise seperate shells. and you'll be able to group all your mechanical parts pretty quick

indian_boy

wats uv shells? u mean UV Groups?

sorry for invading ur thread...

EarthQuake

Just use mudbox, you can have as many different meshes all loaded with different amounts of sub-division.

PeterK

I loaded two meshes into mudbox, but I have no idea how to move the meshes around :P

rooster

select object.. and transform tool

PeterK

Can I see a screenshot of this tool ? I just looked through all the docs, and played with the app for a while, and found nothing called "transform tool".

rooster

well, its actually called translate. its next to the object select button

EarthQuake

The older betas didnt have the transform tool, so if you dont have it you need to upgrade.