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

sr3d · Feb 2016

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 · Feb 2016

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

bugo · Feb 2016

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

sr3d · Feb 2016

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

cryrid · Feb 2016

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 · Feb 2016

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.

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

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