Fundamentals: Insert Polyloop

 

• Inserting the polyloop will connect edges

Fundamentals: Procedural Design

 

QCube: Dynamic Subdivision

 

• Qcube can be initialized under "initalize" when using the star polymesh in lightbox tools

Using Dynamic Subdivision for hard surface

Shift+D (hotkey for dynamic subdivision)

Skulls in ZBrush

ZBrush Movie Enchanting Tree Stump

unwrapping uvs

• In UV Master

1. "Unwrap"
2. "Make a Clone"
3. "Flatten"

Exporting out of 3DS Max to ZBrush

• make sure the entire object is fixed through xView before exporting
• no materials
• make sure it is "polygons"

Rocket Projectile

Fundamentals: Automatically save every 2 minutes

• Preferences > Quicksave
• change automatically save for every 2 minutes

• we do this for three reasons
• 1) a better user experience where meshes are constantly getting hi-res details that is asking a lot from the computer to handle
• 2) it has us evaluate our decisions in handling a hi-res model.
• 3) it has us find out whether or not a document with that much information can be saved onto our hard drive with most recent actions we took; the more geometry, the easier it is to apply the important details onto a model. getting that most recent version before the program possibly crashes, will have us protect our work and learn from our experiences in what to do and what not to do with our models.

Fundamentals: Range of Zremesher (to prevent crashing)

• Between 5 to 10 for Target polygon count
• Mainly because of computer performance; we want to prevent crashing. More work the zremesh is on a high-res mesh, the more time it will the computer to finish. Reducing the target polygon count to about 5 to 10 will be most efficient.

Fundamentals: 250,000-350,000 polys (ideal range for HD Geometry

• 250,000-350,000 poly range HD geometry sculptiing
• Why? To prevent crashing

Projecting hi-res onto low-res

,Morph Target

• Creates a copy of mesh that you can switch back on when you make edits to*

*downside of this is is you move the mesh your sculpting and the morph goes back to the position it was in originally. it should only be used for sculpting details

How to unwrap texture from polypaint

• All of the polypaint you apply on your model will be created as a UV map

What is a UV Island?

• A UV island is a a chunk of the UV unwrap that is split apart from another part.

• Always work with a clone when unwrapping a model

Getting rid of HD Geometry

• duplicate subtool with HD geometry to get rid of HD geometry on subtool

ZRemesher Error

Wolf - ZBrush