So, I am curious is there a way to hide a masked off area to get to mesh that is behind it?
Example: a woman holding her arm across her chest and wanting to make the breast realistically squish around said arm a bit so I mask off the arm but then also want to mask off the part of the breast right behind the arm so when I am manipulating the mesh that part doesn’t move. However with the arm in the way that can be hard to do.
This is generally accomplished with polygroups and visibility shortcuts.
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/modeling-basics/polygroups/http://docs.pixologic.com/reference-guide/tool/polymesh/polygroups/
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/modeling-basics/mesh-visibility/
Group the parts of the model into logical polygroups (for instance, the arm would be one group), then you need only click to hide and/or mask it.
Also try the Move Topo brush as that generally only moves the group or object it is hovered over, and ignores all else.
thanks I will try both of these… still new to the program, but it is soooo cool the options of what one can do seem limited by imagination 