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ZBrush
its basic features: you may need more practice to create very good models.
Let's see the basic
You can switch the workspace in the top right corner.
On top you have the different
has. On the left you have some quick tools used for drawing. On the centre you
have your main
have the
If you
that can really help you when starting.
When opening a
as a
Palettes clicking on their respective titles, and move through them dragging
up and down on the extreme right. Click again on the icon to close any Palette.
When you open ZBrush, a smart navigator called
all projects, brushes and textures saved inside the ZBrush installation folder.
ZBrush shows the content of the installation folder. Project all projects
saved inside, and so on with the other sections.
You can open and close this navigator clicking on
corner. If you close it, you will show your new empty canvas where you can
start drawing in.
Before going on, it is very important to understand how this software manages
what you build. On the toppest level, you have the
your work in full, complete with all its objects and brushes inside. This
Project is then composed by different objects, called
can be edited and personalized with brushes, textures and colors.
Save and fix your new Project: go to
are saved as
In case you save outside the ZBrush folder, a
can find all your projects under
Once your project is defined, use
To build your project and its objects, you need to use
the
do show simple basic solids or more complex shapes, like animals or humans.
The 2.5D tools are simple plain brushes and all the other tools to edit
existing drawings or 3D objects.
You can open and choose the tool clicking on the biggest image inside the
Palette
Project open. You can select and use others going under
Lightbox
To draw in two dimensions, you can use the
drag. On the extreme left, choose the
draw your brush. Then you can change
of your brush.
More below, you have the
You can choose in
Very important is to understand what you are drawing. These simple brushes
are made of
a color and a material defined. The
in the
On top, choose to brush using a color plus a material, with
using just the color using
Plus, you can increase the color opacity increasing the
Whenever you create a single brush, a
On top, you can use
cross system
The
purple side, you will move or scale just from up to down or viceversa. The
green one
move or scale from left to right or the contrary. If you move or scale from
inside, you will move anywhere or scale respecting the aspect ratio.
The
circumference, you will rotate in
area, you will rotate in full
You can draw again clicking on
else, you can't select your previous brush again to edit it.
If you mistake and want to go back, you can use
on the canvas, you can use the
Not all the brushes are the same. Depending on the Tool you choose you can
draw a new brush, or edit an existing one. For example try the
or the Tools dedicated to
Check your canvas often, using the
Drag from the
the
Then you have the
From the
click and drag on the canvas to set the size. These 3D Meshes are called
primitive solids
from to make personalized 3D shapes
sphere
editing them may be quite harder. But if you have to work on complex shapes
like humans or animals, you can start from the
in
To start editing the shape, click on
ZBrush has. On the right, more at the bottom, you can use
Rotate
change the position and the orientation of the object itself.
You can rotate fast by clicking and dragging on the vacant canvas spaces.
To start sculpting,
You need to convert this 3D solid into a
Palette
To edit this object you need to use the
extreme left. There are plenty of 3D brushes, all made to create your shape.
We won't see all of them, but let's see some fundamental tools you need
to know.
There is a group of tools dedicated to change the Tool's surface, like
Clay
a different kind of surface. Simply click and drag on your object.
Then you have the
object you have. As ZBrush suggests,
section of the conductor first.
Some other tools do smooth the object surface, like
create a plain surface like
Other tools, like
drag on the object surface to create curves or deform.
Remember the
on your previous actions done.
As seen for the 2.5D tools, you can set the
case the
Also the pointer is a little more complex,
on the surface you are hovering.
On the left you have the same options for the 2.5D tools: decide the
the
The
each of these, click on one object's point. You will get a
perpendicular to the object's surface on such point and with all the three coordinates. Then you can edit your object dragging from each of the three
orange circles
If you use
Moreover, one of the external circles
other one
If you use
deforming the object, use the central one to deform according to the direction
chosen.
If you are using the
to the direction chosen of course.
Let's see some quick buttons that can save lots of your time.
For example, if you
in and out the canvas.
If you
color.
unless you unmask it.
If you
This simply saves all the parts of the object that stay within such
area, and
Once your object is done, you can save it going on
Single objects or ''Tools'' are saved as
projects, these Tools files can be loaded on different projects
Tool
all shown below the Tool Palette. If you don't need one anymore, select it,
go to
In case you want to save a sort of
as a
its objects anymore. Documents are saved as
saved through the
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