Quick eye question...

[Longshadow]

Southern suggests in ZAcademy to draw the iris of the eye with the circle tool, and to deform that circle to get a cat iris. I can't figure out how to draw that circle onto my already colored eye. I use the alpha circle right? Also, what exactly is a stencil? I havn't tried messing with it yet but it has made me curious. Thanks in advance...

[jaime]

Hi Longshadow,
You can find some more info at www.ZBrush.com (http://www.ZBrush.com) - Visit the ZScript page. There is a EYE ZScript for you to download.
As for the Stencil, here is a good answer:Stencil Tutorial and ZScript (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=001953)
Hope this helps ;)
jaime

[hitch]

hey longshadow
I would check out those quicklinks, theyre a great help, thought I post a quick 123, it might help
um I don't know exactly if this is what u want because i don't how to make the cat iris in z-brush because I make all of my eye maps in photoshop, mainly cause its dead easy.
1 I draw the cat eye shape like so
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1014606758fgm.jpg
2 I then apply polar cordinates filter(Polar to rectangular) to make it fit to a shperical map.
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1014606968uzh.jpg
3 save you image and import it into zbrush as a textre you can add other detail in photoshop or zbrush i quickly applied some cat eyes to a model,hadnt done cat eyes before,this way seemed to work fine

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1014607538pcp.jpg
hope this has been of help ::

[banez]

the top pic hitch2 posted you can use it as stencil and draw it in and still be in edit mode.....
import alpha the pic hitch2 posted
1 :zadd off
2 : tool :modifyers : texture : colorize