How to make a belt and beltholder in Zbrush?

Farina · Oct 2015

Helllo,

i want to make a belt and the holder, that holds the belt on a jeans, but i dont know how to do, both things in zbrush?

cryrid · Oct 2015

Mask-extraction would be really quick, or the topology brush if you want it to be cleaner. They main forms are all pretty basic shapes when you break them down. Just get some thin rectangular strips going for the holders and then sculpt some fabric detail and stitching onto them.

Farina · Oct 2015

thank you,

but how i can attached the holders to the jeans? If i dynamesh, it dynameshes all togehter

Scruples · Oct 2015

Is there some reason you don't want to use a separate subtool?

Farina · Oct 2015

hello,

yes! i want to keep it realistic, like on an original jeans. There are no seperate holders, on a jeans

Vailias · Oct 2015

Depends on how you think about it. Each belt loop is a separate piece of cloth which has been folded and stitched to the rest of the garment. There's no reason to have to model it all as one big piece of geometry, especially if it makes it more difficult for you to achieve the same visual end result.

Just use separate subtools for the loops. They shouldn't inter-penetrate the main jeans anyway, and the extra detail available to each belt loop will be useful to you.

Tzur_H · Oct 2015

Yeah I'd separate them as well.
But, if you really want, you can turn "group" option under DynaMesh menu, it will SPLIT and KEEP separate poly grouped objects from DynaMeshing together as long as it is turned on.

Farina · Oct 2015

Thank you so much guys, for the help, it really helps me!

At the moment , my biggest problem is the workflow for a belt... yes, it sounds soo easy, to ouse the strapcurvebrush, but after that, i had big problems.

Here is my workflow and the break:

1. On the jeansobject, i use the curvestrapbrush
2. I use crease, to hold the form, when i subdivide
3. start to work on that belt?

I found it hard, to NOT destroy the form, when sculpting. When i use pinch or other brushes.

Internet Friend · Oct 2015

After you make the strap go into the Polygroup menu and use Group by Normal to break it up into front, back, and side groups. Then you can ctrl+click to mask out the parts you're not working on.

Under the brush menu, Auto Masking, are the Backface Masking and Mask by Polygroups options that are useful when working with thin subtools.

How to make a belt and beltholder in Zbrush?

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