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Solved: ShadowBox & a Boxy mesh

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#1

Hi Guys,

I was making some circular shapes with shadowbox, similar to Ryan Kingslien's [workshop](https://www.zbrushworkshops.com/register/catalog/product/gallery/id/21/image/270/) (<-- really smooth looking circles), where he made a gun's trigger guard, he had Res at the default of 128 (same here), but when I try making any circular shapes like that, the 3d circle is very pixelated looking compared to the same results Ryan got. Is there an option somewhere I'm missing that makes it smoother? (apart from ReMesh resolution). Thanks for any info.

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#2

I’m not sure why your having that problem. I just tried it for myself using the default 128 Shadowbox from Spotlight Projects and got this.

Resolution Test for 128 Shadowbox.jpg

Ezra

#3

Thanks for testing and replying Ezra! It’s really appreciated!

I’ve tried that just using the “back” plane…and it comes nice and clean like yours at 128. Even if i define the thickness using the right plane it’s still smooth. But if I use the right plane to build any circular shapes (by default it extends the circles for the width of the shadowbox), and try to narrow this down to a slim circle like yours (using MaskRect), it gets that horrible choppy mesh like in my first post. Do you get the same bad results if you build off the “right” plane?

After some trial and error to see what was causing it. To get the smooth mesh, I need to draw the “bottom” shape too! But Ryan didn’t do that for his gun and it came out nice and smooth (although he did use a v4 beta).