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Dynamesh "Sub"

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#1

Hi,
I have a DynaMesh where I like to substract the negative of my eyeball-hole. I have to insert the mesh with pressing ALT-key. This is really annoying. As far as I understood “Sub” in the Dynamesh sub-palette should do the same. But that’s not working for me and I don’t understand why.
Left mesh is combined with “Sub” command, right mesh with pressing ALT while inserting mesh and then CTRL-drag twice.

Any suggestions why “Sub” is not working?

Thx.

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Eye-Hole-1.jpg

Eye-Hole-1.jpg

#2

It was either 4R4 or 4R5 that changed the way you do that operation. Check the PDF’s in your ZBrush installation’s Documentation folder.

#3

Hi aurick,
thanks for your hint.
I’m using 4R5. I have checked the PDFs and in the changelog of 4R4 on page 91 there is a section about “Group as DynaMesh Sub”
As far as I understood it should be possible to “mark” inserted meshes or appended sub-tools as “to-be-substracted” while next Dynamesh remesh.
This is a third option, isn’t it? But I don’t have success with this method either.


  • I have 2 subtools
  • I have converted both subtools to dynamesh
  • selected the eye-hole negative and grouped with “Group as Dynamesh sub”
  • I switched to the “main” subtool and did a remesh
  • nothing happend

If I use “insert mesh brush” I still get additive remeshing.

I tried a lot of variations. No success for me. Hmmm…

#4

Joseph Drust did a nice tutorial on dynamesh substract.

http://pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/military-assets-with-joseph-drust/

#5

Thanks stone3d!
Perfect tutorial for all my questions!