hi Guys, I was watching this Ryan Kingslien tutorial for the clay coil brush (https://www.uartsy.com/lessons/the-clay-coil-brush-know-zbrush-inside-and-out-with-ryan-kingslien) and right at the end he duplicates the insert mesh in one move on the fly. it says in the video that he just presses ctrl alt but that doesn’t make sense. I can’t seem to watch the video anymore to review it again (it says permission denied), so I’m wondering if someone could tell me how to do this…how do you duplicate the insert mesh without duplicating the mesh that it sits on…I just want to be able to duplicate the inserted mesh only!
You can duplicate a subtool inside of the subtool with ctrl and dragging as long:
-it is the complete subtool or
-it is a unmasked section with not welted vertex with other parts (island) and the rest is masked. If it is not an island but only an unmasked section of a masked subtool will do a extrusion instead.
-no subdivisions or layers
Zremesher can currently create copies of sections using ctrl over a selection of polys with Qmesh (when the dragging has started). But if they are not flat is likely to deform it as it only can do it using the normals of the individual polygons.
I guess that would handy if somebody does a script or plugin that from hiding all except the part we want to duplicate the subtool is duplicated, deleted the hidden parts, changed the resulting subtool polygroup assignation, merge again. It could be selected again as it is a different polygroup. This would avoid the current limitation where it is not easy to duplicate parts of a subtool if they are welded.
thanks so much for your detailed replied Altea, super helpful, Ctrl+Drag is exactly what I was looking for, I’ll also try out the Qmesh function you mentioned, I haven’t used that before. thanks again