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1st post. Introduce myself and a little question

Hello, this is my first post so I would like to say hello to every one. I’ve been interested in zbrush for a while, but it was not until some months ago that I found decide to get more involved with it. I started learning anatomy and read a couple of famous books about zbrush and made their tutorials.

I found this web extremely interesting and after reading through many post of other people I both found out that there is unbelievable talented people here, but most important, really nice and helpful people.

I create this post also to ask a question related to my first WIP. When I was working with the zbrush books i was working with Zbrush 4. But now, I updated to 4R2, and find out what dynamesh i capable of.

I started playing with it for a couple of minutes…and that became 2 hours, so I continue working with it. Now I have a girl bust, with no hair. One single subtool. I just wonder which is, in your opinion, the best approach now to add the hair. I guess I should have worked with it when I was creating the dynamesh. Do you recommend me to just create a new subtool and merge if afterwards? Should I delete my higher subdivisions and go back to work with dynamesh? I guess many people have had this situation before: a bald, detailed character. Im not looking anyway for a realistic hair, like the new brush that is coming with 4R2b, but for some kind of “plastic looking” hair.

Thank you all for your time.

you can add the hair however you’d like.
A new subtool is probably the route I would go.
You could also clone your head, step down subD levels, generate a new dynamesh and add the hair.
when you’re done with the hair you could project your face/head details back onto your model and then detail out the hair…if you haven’t done this already that is.

If the end result doesn’t have to be a single mesh then you might as well just keep it as a subtool though.

my 2cents.

thanks beta_channel I think I will go with with the subtool. Sounds good enough for my purposes with this work.