Almost Boolean!

[matvara]

Hi everyone;
Browsing through older posts here, I found some topics covering Boolean
operation and how difficult it can be to have the object still editable
after the operation. While I was doodling with Zbrush last night, I did
stumble over some methode which can facilitate a bit around this matter.
Here are the results and as you can see, some odd probes can be created
this way. There are of course more possibilities which can be discovered
as you can combine different combinations of Zspheres and/or primitives.

The only thing that should be kept in mind is that two faces which are
going to be masked, must be parallel and identical with exact amount of
polys. The other thing is mesh resolution proior to masking which in fact
determinds the smoothness of round holes.
On Cube3D examples I needed to mask only one face in most cases.

Feel free to post and share your experiments here, as I can clearly see
that Zbrush possibilities are almost endless.

Thanks for viewing!

[Cezar Souza]

Fantastic!!! Been looking for a way to do this in Zbrush for a while!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!

[manitu]

thanks matvara,this is a great tutorial!!

[matvara]

You welcome cezar. I'm happy to see you can
use it. Good luck and happy brushing!

[TVeyes]

Thanks for sharing that nifty trick I never thought of doing it like that. Cool.

[andreseloy]

Matvara thanks a lot and congratulations for this very important tip¡¡¡
Andreseloy

[Fouad B.]

wow! reaaly usefull experimentations!!!
thx for sharing that Matvara !!

[matvara]

Manitu, TVeyes and Andre, You are very much
welcome. I guess it's kind of payback time for
me, where I have read and used tutorials and
zscripts you and other members have provided
this forum with. I'm just happy I could make
a small contribution.
Happy brushing!

[Svengali]

MatV,

Really, BRILLIANT! I love new discoveries like this. Let's see what else people post in this thread using your discovery!

Sven

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi Matvara
Cool to recall the powerful of the Masking aera!
Maybe this folowing lines will be caduc in a few time
Confirmation (thx Andre)! Don't take care of the following lines
There are totaly false, wrong, erroneous
"
But carreful It's not a real "boolean" when you export the object in another prog!
Points are not "delete"! A sphere with "a hole" is always an "entiere" sphere
"
Thx Fouad the first to see my enormous mistake
Pilou

[Fouad B.]

Wrong pilou.
not true with an object unified.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Show me that !
Pilou

[Fouad B.]

just try... Pilou..

[Kaz]

Nice one!

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi nice boxes Kaz
I cant export as a demo user !
What is the "wire" at the exportation?
Inside space solid is not created ?
All sides are a Plane ?
Is not Zbrush a surfacic prog and not volumic?
Show me the wire frame exported
Pilou