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Etching lines

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Etching lines

Can anyone explain how to etch lines on a sculpt.

#2

It really depends on the specific effect you’re going for. There are many different ways to achieve those kinds of effects. Here are a few:


  • Use one of the sculpting brushes with Zsub active instead of Zadd. SingleLayer is a good choice for this. You can turn on the Lazy Mouse stroke option to help smooth your strokes.
  • You can paint a mask, invert it, then apply a deformation through the mask.
  • You can create a Stencil and sculpt through it. You can even set the stencil to wrap to the model’s surface.
  • In 3.5R3 you can even do things like polypaint your design, create polygroups from the polypaint, then use the GroupsLoops feature. From there it’s easy to do all sorts of effects.

I recommend reading the online documentation (see my signature) for the first few of these features, and the PDF included in the ZBrush 3.5R3 folder for the last.

#3

is there a way to control depth?