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How to make eyeholes in a helmet

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#1

Hi,

I was thinking of making a helmet for Dota 2, and my question now is how I could do so in Zbrush.

How can I get holes for the eyes?

Here’s a really cool workflow video of a game artist working on a helmet, and right in the beginning you can see that he seems to cut away pieces of the mesh using what seems to be the clay buildup brush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_gJMwJ-qE4

When I do that it just messes up my dynamesh.

Is there a way to get holes for eyes into a dynamesh or what would be the way to go about this?

Thanks!

#2

As far as I can see he is using clay brush to push back stuff and reveal the face. I don’t see any holes. It won’t mess up the dynamesh.

#3

Right, and how would one go about making holes in dynamesh for armor? For example the head and arm holes in chest armor and so on?

I tried just pulling dynamesh out and putting it together, then dynameshing it again. That works, but I’m not sure if that’s the correct/easiest way to do it.

#4

There are multiple ways of achieving the same results. It depends on your personal preference which one to choose. But for putting a hole in a dynamesh you should pick another subtool that is the shape of the hole.Then make it a subtractive group either from polygroup subpalette or by little icon. Then just dynamesh again. The subtractive shape will make a clean hole. You could also inset mesh and hold alt then the inserted mesh will be subtracted after you redynanesh. You could also use bridge to make a hole in a mesh.