Isolating Selections!

Rock Bottom

Hi guys listen i have been looking around but cant seem to find any info in How to select Mesh and to isolate that mesh in Z Brush if anyone knows any info could you please share it? and when working with a mesh like this



is having each stone in a Sub Dir here recommended?



if so i have no problem in redoing the hole thing more fun for me muahaha

SpeCter

You can mask of things you don´t want to see and hide them,if you meant that.

Rock Bottom

oh.. ok that sounds a lot simple how do i mask them and hide the rest? still learning ZBrush so please help

cryrid

Subtools would be an easy way - clicking that eyeball will either hide the mesh or isolate it, depending on if it is the active subtool.

If its a single mesh, you could split it into polygroups and ctrl+shift+click the group you want to isolate.

If you don't have polygroups or want to isolate parts on the fly, you can quickly hide selections using ctrl+shift+click, and dragging a selection box (or lasso).

Rock Bottom

got it thanks very helpful

SpeCter

Thats what i meant i´m a mudbox user who used zbrush once, therefore i forgot

Michael Knubben

Even at this point, it's not too late to make seperate subtools. When you import them, you can project your old sculpted mesh onto the new ones.
But yes, polygroups are also really nice. There's even a brush option that limits you to only be able to sculpt on one polytool at once.

Rock Bottom

@cryrid: thanks mate very helpful stuff man

@SpeCter: No worry mate you still gave me an idea how to run this thing

@MightyPea: whats that brush?? sounds interesting is it any good?

thanks mates i know it may not be right to ask this on this Thread but does my Model have any comparison to what i am trying to make it look like?

felipefrango

Yeah, there's no point in doing a whole lot of work again, you'll be fine with the mesh as it is but next time try making each brick its own polygroup. If you still wanna be able to select them and work on them individually you could use polypaint and paint each brick a different contrasting color, then go to the Polygroups menu and create polygroups from polypaint, should work.

Michael Knubben

http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Polygroups_and_Masking

Found by googling for 'Zbrush polygroups brush', by the way.