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#1

Been working through the educational videos and am stuck on Environments with Tate Mosesian in the grid section at
37 seconds. http://pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/environments-with-tate-mosesian/

The grid he loads I don’t have and can’t figure out how to create. I made a grid but his is active and the bricks snap to it.

Does anyone know how to create an active grid like Tate uses that mesh will snap too?

Thanks,
Neal

#2

The grid he is using is composed by a Zbrush Plane tool with a grid texture created in Photoshop or any other 2D app. Just need to load in texture palette and then apply in your Tool>Texture. As your plane is square you need to create a squared size grid image, for example 2048*2048.
After you have your plane with your grid texture you just have to apply your InserMesh brush on the Plane. This will automatically snap your bricks to the plane as any other IMM brush does.

Hope this helps

#3

Thanks trying today.

#4

Created a grid, loaded as a texture as directed, then he says go to poly paint and create from texture but when I do I get
a bad result?
grid 10x10.jpggrid10x10 distorted.jpg

#5

The mesh needs to be denser.

#6

Thanks, that did that and then … lol, I place the first brick on the grid using control and it shrunk to almost nothing. Not sure why this tutorial is so hard to follow. All the ones up to this point have been great.

Micro brick. I set the document size to 1024x1024 as indicated.
doc.jpg

#7

[QUOTE=Nealcrz;1052574]Thanks, that did that and then … lol, I place the first brick on the grid using control and it shrunk to almost nothing. Not sure why this tutorial is so hard to follow. All the ones up to this point have been great.

Ugg Draw size! sorry

#8

As Doug Jones sais you need to divide your plane to have enough polygons to keep the Polypaint information. But this is innecesary step. The plane is just used as reference to drag the bricks on. The key is have a square document i.e 2048x2048 and press F to frame the plane in the canvas and then enjoy with the bricks IMM to place the bricks on the grid plane.

Cheers

F

#9

Thanks! In the last video he’s able to turn on more than one layer at a time. On a MAC I can’t seem to find the key to have more than one layer active.
Anyone know the trick there? :slight_smile: thanks

Found it lol.

#10

There isn’t more than one layer active. He inserts a brick and the plane is masked, then he puts another brick in place. It can be split to become the grout layer. Maybe it wasn’t explained well enough, that’s what I got out of it.

#11

Why is your draw size 3?