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ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide

By : Manuel Scherer
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ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide

By: Manuel Scherer

Overview of this book

ZBrush is a fantastic tool for creating models for use in computer games. Using a wide range of powerful tools you can create models for vehicles, props, environments, and characters. This book makes creating game art in ZBrush fast and easy. It covers everything you need to create models of all kinds for your game projects, even if you've never used ZBrush before. Built around four complete ZBrush projects, the book gives you everything you need to sculpt props, vehicles, and creatures in ZBrush. You'll start by creating a "spooky tree" model, mastering the sculpting, texturing, and decoration skills that are essential for all ZBrush topics. Next you'll move to man-made objects with a sci-fi drone. Next you'll see how to sculpt monsters and other creatures, deal with cloth and other soft materials, and prepare the model to become an animated, controllable character in a game. The final project returns to machines, building a complete, detailed spaceship for use in your sci-fi games.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action - using the Trays


  1. 1. Open and close the right tray by clicking on the small arrow symbol on its left border, as shown in the next screenshot:

  2. 2. Open the hidden tray on the left-hand side of the screen, so that both trays are open.

  3. 3. Now let's move the tool palette from the right tray to the left. To do so, click-and-drag the tool palette handle from the right to the left tray.

  4. 4. Let's put another palette into our right tray, which is now empty. Open the Document Palette from the Palette List at the very top of your screen and drag its palette handle to the right tray, as you did in the previous step.

  5. 5. Your screen should now look similar to the next screenshot with the tool palette docked in the left tray and the document palette in the right:

What just happened?

We've just explored how we can customize our workspace in ZBrush to our liking by using the trays.

Palettes

If you click on a palettes icon, instead of dragging, the palette will either be thrown out of the tray...