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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 interface preset Sculpt01


  1. 1. Switch to the interface layout Sculpt01 by clicking on the interface layout preset button.

  2. 2. Our screen should now look like the next screenshot:

  3. 3. The main difference between this layout and the default one is the enlarged canvas and the list of brushes at the bottom. This list holds 12 brushes you can choose from. This way, we don't have to open the brush selection window all the time.

  4. 4. Let's change the fourth brush from the Flatten brush to the Inflat brush. Click on the Flatten brush and select the Inflat brush from the pop-up list.

    Note

    The brush list is quite overwhelming at first. To help find specific brushes, they are sorted alphabetically. You can also filter all brushes commencing with a specific letter by clicking on the letter at the top of the list or just by pressing the respective key.

  5. 5. To find the Inflat brush faster, open the brush selection and press the I key. This will only display brushes commencing with the letter...