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workflow questions for insert mesh

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#1

Hi

I was watching some zbrush summit videos and I saw this workflow where the artist was using an insert mesh brush to to quickly kit bash together a mech model. The two things that I caught my eye were it seemed that he was inserting as subtools as separate objects and the second was he was able to explode the separate parts out and work on them.

Can anyone explain how this is done or did I just not see what I thought I saw?

Thanks.

#2

When you use Insert Mesh, the initial mesh is masked. You can then hide the inserted mesh and split it into a separate subtool.

#3

hi thanks for the reply.

so you would have to do this one by one? everytime you inserted a mesh?

#4

Yes that’s right. If the insert mesh contains multiple parts (for instance a load of spider legs in one Insert), you just need to do it once.