{"id":222,"date":"2008-12-23T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovecraftforest.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-04-01T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T16:06:12","slug":"zbrush-mechanical-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Zbrush Mechanical Part 2, Spinning in Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making perfect circles is pretty important to creating the illusion of mechanical things. \u00a0Fortunately there are lots of ways to do this, such as as using round alphas, but did you know you could quickly paint circular displacements right on to any hires geometry? \u00a0It&#8217;s called radial symmetry and it&#8217;s really quite simple to use. \u00a0 Just click on the &#8220;(R)&#8221; button on the transform pallet and set the number of copies of your brush you need. \u00a0 Set it really high (up to 100) and then you can quickly spin-up perfectly circular ridges. \u00a0The clay brush will keep these ridges perfectly level. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty easy 1-2-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plain-cube.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-224\" title=\"plain-cube\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovecraftforest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plain-cube-300x236.png\" alt=\"Plain Cube Subdivided\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plain-cube-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/plain-cube.png 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plain Cube Subdivided<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/radial-sym.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-225\" title=\"radial-sym\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovecraftforest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/radial-sym-300x175.png\" alt=\"A Radial Symmetry Brush\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/radial-sym-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/radial-sym-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/radial-sym.png 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Radial Symmetry Brush<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/detcube.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223\" title=\"A detailed cube\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovecraftforest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/detcube-300x261.png\" alt=\"A detailed cube\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/detcube-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/detcube.png 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A detailed cube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making perfect circles is pretty important to creating the illusion of mechanical things. \u00a0Fortunately there are lots of ways to do this, such as as using round alphas, but did you know you could quickly paint circular displacements right on to any hires geometry? \u00a0It&#8217;s called radial symmetry and it&#8217;s really quite simple to use. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/?p=222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zbrush Mechanical Part 2, Spinning in Circles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[3,62],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zbrush","tag-3d-tools","tag-zbrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}