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Insert Mesh Creating Inability to Mask/Smooth?

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#1

I found a lovely tutorial on insert mesh (the one in the subdiv layer, not the brush which… just doesn’t work right for me ever). I decided to sculpt up a quick, multi-part piece to test it out.

It all combined well, but there were, obviously, seams. I held down shift to try to smooth and nothing happened. Then I chose the smooth brush, and nothing happened. Wondering if I had some strange glitch, I tested to see if I could draw on the combined pieces with the standard brush, which I could.

I decided to bypass the smoothing issue by just using the smooth deformation. I went to mask the seam, and it wouldn’t mask! NEITHER of the combined parts will mask at all.

Is this normal for using insert mesh? I was hoping to make the whole piece one mesh, then be able to mask and deform it to get poses out of the thing.

#2

insert mesh does exactly what it says, it “inserts”, it doesn’t combine. zbrush doesn’t have a boolean function. you can either retoplogize a new mesh over your inserted mesh, or try the unified skin.

#3

Yeah but that doesn’t really explain why he can’t use masking. That’s weird. I know the clay brush is supposed to be best suited for blending seams between two meshes like that. Not sure what the deal is with your masking.

#4

Use the beta version of 3D coat, to combine 2 meshes.
You can find it on their forums. :smiley: