I am trying to create a 3 d version or similar version to a 2d striking snake I made using Photoshop for a Flash movie and have recently been trying to use Z Brush to create it but I can’t seem to get the snake smoothly coiled (using zsphere can’t keep a consistently tapering cylinder) any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
lol…I just got renderosity notification of you adding me to your list while I was reading this thread and I was going to look that image up for you…thats funny…anything like that I can help you with?
Hi Temptoro and welcome aboard! Here is a Quick Snake Script.TXT that may help to point you in the right direction. Cheers!
I make Flash for web designers freelance (guitar teacher day job :)and use Photoshop and Paintshop Pro mostly but have been learning Bryce and Z Brush so I can do 3 D stuff and need to create a snake that strikes an apple for a website Flash I am doing, problem is that my 2 D images are ok, but the 3 D suck I can’t seem to make a tapered cylinder for the body of snake. Seeing how you made a front view eliminated the need for the taper and it may be the way for me to go.If you have any tips on making cylinders and other organic shapes like that or can point me to any tutorials like that it would be appreciated.I am uploading a .jpg of a 2D snake and you will see how cheesy it looks and why I want to use Z Brush to create a better looking image 
TemptoroFate
hmmm did something wrong uploading image…will try again
this is a heavily compressed jpg.You see why I want to use another application to create a snake, as this simply is to ugly to have on a webpage hehe
TemptoroFate
Thanks Mentat7,
I only have version 1.23 on my home computer and I couldn’t run the script…got and error saying Incorrect type of variable input/output
[IReset,1.55]
so I changed the reset line of script and took out one comma , and script started to run but then got error that couldn’t find tool:zsphere and sure enough I can’t find it in this version. Any suggestions what to do since I can’t afford to buy myself newer version and can’t use other computer till after Christmas holidays when time will be limited again 
TemptoroFate
PS I bought computer used and had ZBRush 1.23 already installed by last owner and I don’t have his phone number or current address now to get upgrade info. It also on my slowest machine, when I get newer version I want to put on my main computer (this bought as a webserver primarily)
Hi tempo
Here the Snake of Mentat the 7 made with Zspheres
(just the result of the modeling without smooth, texture etc…
I suppose Mentat makes this in one minute !
A royal Cobra I think
Zbrush is terrific for that!
For patient before your new compute!
But you can make that with you slow compute!
I have one Cyrix 166 till the next week and that’s working perfectly! (try to loaf the last version) for the Zspheres
Zbrush is one of the best program that I have never seen! (no crash and super speed!
Pilou
Hi Temptorofate and I’m sorry to inform you that you may be in breech of Zbrush copyright terms…unless perhaps it is the demo version… or you also bought the Zbrush programme (?) I may be wrong on this, but it might pay to check…best of luck on the snake…
I thought that 1.23 didn’t have ZSpheres.
Anyway, there is a way to create a string of ZSpheres, and then automatically taper from any one ZSphere to any other one. So, you could taper from near the middle to each end, and you would have a nice snake shape. Then you would just need to shape the ZSphere(s) on one end into a head, and arrange the body as required.
The way to do this is to use the Zif-Slick ZScript. You may have to buy the latest version of ZBrush, however.
TemptoroFate, I have sent you an email.