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Polygroup- poly per poly feature?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Is there a way to go to your the lowest subdivision level of your model (the blocky stage) and create a polygroup by selecting one poly at a time until you have selected all the polys you want to convert into a new polygroup? I don’t know if the sentence really explains it well.

I’d really like to be able to request the Polygroup feature and then click on one poly at a time on a low poly mesh until I have grouped up the exact polys I want to be linked into that new Polygroup. Painting and masking on low polys doesn’t really work like this. Polypaint and Masking usually paints over 2 polys at a time in low meshes. Sometimes it converts the ones you want, sometimes it converts the ones you dont, and sometimes it ignore the ones you are sure you painted/masked over. There is no real way of knowing the outcome until you click on the “From” button. Tolerence Sliders only help so much

#2

hide the polygons you don’t want to be in a polygroup
ctrl+shift+lmb = green box = show only within selection
ctrl+shift+lmb-shift = red box = hide within selection

once you hide and show what you want simply create a polygroup from visible.
you may want to turn on point select as well
transform>pSelect (or something like that).

hope that helps.

#3

Don’t forget that in 3.5 R3 there are some new options in the Tool>Visibility submenu:


  • Grow will unhide loops of polygons one loop at a time.
  • Hide will hide polygons one loop at a time.
  • Outer Ring will hide everything but the outer ring of visible polygons.

#4

Thank’s for the tips guys.