Zsphere issue adaptive mesh - bloomin' tentacles!

[Jolyonmeldrum]

Hi all, having a few issue with zspheres… apologies I am a bit of a ‘lite’ zbrush user, I only use it for very select things… so as soon as I venture out of my comfort zone I hit issues!

I am trying to work out the best way to sculpt tentacles, I settled on zspheres, which seem to be working well so far as I seem to have far more control of how they are placed.

This shows I have made two set of branching tentacles… so my main problem is that when I turn on adaptive skin… it merges the two that are close to each other which isn’t ideal as I want control to keep them separate…

So my question is, firstly when they are branching from one source zsphere can I stop them merging if they are close?

Or does that mean I need to make each tentacles it’s own set of zspheres to avoid merging?

Or… is there a completely different way I should be doing this…

Thanks to anyone that can help me out in advance!

J.

[Spyndel]

Hi @Jolyonmeldrum,

While working with your live ZSphere tool, turn the Dynamesh resolution slider in the Tool> Adaptive Skin menu down to zero. This will disable the fusing behavior that Dynamesh contributes to the adaptive skin.

[Jolyonmeldrum]

Thanks very much for the speedy response, you have no idea how much i’ve needed some help!

That worked really nicely, I am getting a very weird junction between the root and the connected zspheres.

Here’s one setting and here’s another:

Any way to make that smoother?

Thanks for all the help again!