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Does Zbrush have a solid tool or utility for making webbing like structures?

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#1

Specifically, veins and arteries. I’m rebuilding the human body layer by layer (skeleton, muscles, organs, etc) and I’m at the circulatory system stage late in. I’m somewhat struggling with a good way to make a fully meshed circulatory system. My original plan was zSpheres, but the two key issues facing zSpheres is (to my knowledge):

  1. the arms between each sphere are straight, meaning to get a nice curvy effect I’d need to draw in lots of interconnecting spheres (or modify it once converted to a skin), and

2: the spheres cannot interconnect like a web, rather they branch out like a tree.

So is there a better solution I should look into by chance?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Gray574.png

You can see how veins tend to flow into one another.

#2

I’d use ZSketch. You can easily draw the veins on top of the muscles (just append a zsphere as a new subtool and make sure Ghost is off). And you can use Dynamesh to remesh if you want to.

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/modeling-basics/creating-meshes/zsketch/

#3

I suggest just the Extraction method with a mask.