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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

Hard surface brushes


As we already saw, ZBrush 4.0 comes with a vast amount of brushes. But, if we take a closer look we'll see that there are, for example, 10 variations of the planar brush, so we can categorize them easily. Our three main brushes for hard surface sculpting, in this chapter, will be the Planar-, Polish, and the Trim brushes. Let's get an overview of what defines these brushes and how to use them.

The Planar brushes work like cutting off some part of the mesh, or making it planar, hence the name. This will give us plain surfaces with sharp edges, like goggles, for example.

The Trim Dynamic also creates planar surfaces, but changes its orientation while drawing across the surface. The Trim brushes allow for a more sketchy way of establishing hard surface areas.

The Polish brushes can create smooth surface transitions with low pressure and sharp creases with high pressure. This is somehow an all-rounder, used quite often.

With that said, let's see what we can make of this...