Making curved tubes/wires?

JDunay · Aug 2012

I would like to be able to create curved tubes in Zbrush.

I've been looking all over for a tutorial but had really no luck at all finding one. I've seen one or two timelapses but still cant tell whats going on.

Does anyone have a good method that they would be willing to share?

Thanks!

cryrid · Aug 2012

Are you looking for help creating them with the aptly named curved tube brushes, or are you looking to customize the tube through the Insert mesh/ multi mesh system?

JDunay · Aug 2012

hmmm, good question.

I'd like to know how the tubes on this gun were made.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103229

and also how he got that texture on them. Sorry for my lack of a better explanation of what i want. Pretty new to zbrush so I dont quite know the lingo just yet.

Autarkis · Aug 2012

Those tubes are most likely poly modeled, from splines or nurbs. If you look on page two of that thread, he's showing you how he modeled the criss-cross pattern in maya and bend it to form a cylinder with it.
Seems he only used zbrush for the block in of that gun

cryrid · Aug 2012

I would model a small section of it, almost treating it like a seamless texture. You can poly model it or maybe even just load a cylinder in Zbrush and use noise maker. From there I would recommend looking into the tutorials and documentation using the insert mesh / tri-parts. The pdf files can be found in the install directory, or online on pixologic's wiki.

JDunay · Aug 2012

awesome! ill take a look. Thanks

Making curved tubes/wires?

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