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Is there a GOOD tutorial out there showing how to work with insert brushes?

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#1

Hi guys,

It doesn’t matter where I look every single tutorial on insert brushes with Dynamesh seems to be wrong (including Pixologics own documentation).

What I mean by this is there are settings people are setting up somewhere to get them to operate the way you see in the video but they never tell you what those settings are.

For example, in Pixologics own documentation they show a series of cylinders that you can plainly see that they dynamesh and the mesh is subtracted. How can they plainly see them without changing the default settings? By default you CAN’T see them because someone thought it was a good idea to make them hardly visible. (Thankfully ZBer2 posted a link on how to fix this but in typical Pixologic style its a mess of settings to accomplish one thing).

The second is I saw a video (that I can’t find for the life of me) that showed someone able to use transparency to see how deep they were using an insert mesh. How on earth do they do that? I just have to guess and guess and guess and its getting frustrating. I seriously don’t understand how people work so efficiently with these. There has got to be some secret.

So back to my root question, is there any video out there that shows how to work with these things efficiently and that tells you the settings they change to do so? I’ve been fussing for 45 minutes just trying to get two cylinders to line up.

#2

I can help with 2 things.

Fir insert brushes - when you are subtracting (ie have pressed ALT when you draw it on) make sure your display properties (new par the bottom of the tool panel on the right) has Double selected. Then you’ll see it. Not sure if having Frame Ctl+F let’s you see it too.

For using transoarency, you ,ay be thinking of something different. If, rather than using an insert brush, you appen a tool (any tool you have including the primitives). Then select that tool, you will be able to use trmasarency. Then go back to your first tool, make sure it’s dynamesh end. On the tool you want to use for a Boolean operation make sure the little icon is set to union or subtract ( whichever you want) and Merge Down. Now when you dynamesh the tool, it will ad, or subtract.

Hope tat helps.

#3

Thanks so much! I’ll give it a whirl when I get a chance.