Hey All,
I have a quick question, is it possible to deform a insert mesh along a curve without having to use a tri-part mesh? What I am trying to achieve is a way to quickly place and deform hair cards for real-time use. The thought was if I could insert a low poly hair mesh via curve I would be able to have it bend and stick to the surface. Does anyone know of a way to achieve this in Zbrush?
Thanks!
If the curve were disabled, you might be able to use the brush’s projection modifier to have the inserted mesh deform to the underlying surface. But of course that would use the surface as the guide, not a curve.
If its a really simple plane you could also insert it normally, and while everything else is masked off use transpose, the move brushes, and perhaps some weak match maker in order to quickly groom it to your liking.
Hey Cryid,
Thanks for the tips! I guess there just isn’t a quick way of doing this in Zbrush just yet. A typical head has hundreds of cards and was just trying to find a quicker way for the task. I am going to take a look at fibermesh and see if there is anything that can be done there.
Here’s hoping a feature like this will be included in a Zbrush update.
Thanks!
Try the ‘Curve MultiTube’ brush and turn Z Intensity down to 1. I’m not 100% sure if this is what your after though. Try it and see. It would be quick.
Thanks zber2 for the information. The Curve MultiTube brush works similar to how I want it, but I don’t have control over the tessellation and UV’s on the resulting geometry.
You might want to take a close look at FiberMesh. With the Groom brushes you have a lot of control and it is very quick to set up, especially if you spend time to make a preset that you can then just load for a project.
If you want to use a plane rather than lots of fibers then fibermesh will do that too. I’ve attached a preset to show you how. Once you have the preview how you want you just press Tool>FiberMesh>Accept and it’s converted to geometry (with UVs in place).
