{"id":442,"date":"2009-01-21T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovecraftforest.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2023-04-01T16:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T16:06:12","slug":"zbrush-mechanical-part-9-instant-greeble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"ZBrush Mechanical Part 9, Instant Greeble"},"content":{"rendered":"

This trick really isn’t mine as much as a\u00a0simplification\u00a0of Lemonnado’s excellent tutorial on making Greebles with masks (Zeebles). \u00a0 (You can view the full tutorial here<\/a>.) \u00a0 The point I want to show you here is that UV’s can play a very helpful role in making repeating detail. \u00a0Here we take a simple form, made up of a few polygons, and decorate it with a repeating geometry with very little work.<\/p>\n

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Step 1) Go to the UV menu (or the Texture Menu in earlier versions of ZB3) and select the UVTile button. \u00a0 This will stack\/overlap each polygon on top of the UV space. \u00a0Normally, overlapping UV’s is a BadThing\u2122, but in this case, this is exactly what we want.<\/p>\n

Step 2) Subdivide the object to get lots of detail–about 1M polygons (8 levels)<\/p>\n

Step 3) Go to the texture menu and select a texture that would look nice. \u00a0 A\u00a0seamless\u00a0texture will also look cool. \u00a0I picked built-in Texture 13, which looks tailored made for Greebles. \u00a0 In one step, the whole object is covered with texture, 1 copy for each polygon at level 1\"texturesnut\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 4) Covert the texture to a mask by going to the Masking pallet and select “Mask by Intensity”. \u00a0 For clarity, you can turn the texture off if you want.\"maskednut\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 5) Inflate once or twice to bring out the geometry.\"inflatnut\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A little texturing and it has a nice tech technical surface. \u00a0 Try this with other alphas or make your own after looking at Lemonnado’s Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This trick really isn’t mine as much as a\u00a0simplification\u00a0of Lemonnado’s excellent tutorial on making Greebles with masks (Zeebles). \u00a0 (You can view the full tutorial here.) \u00a0 The point I want to show you here is that UV’s can play a very helpful role in making repeating detail. \u00a0Here we take a simple form, made … Continue reading ZBrush Mechanical Part 9, Instant Greeble<\/span> →<\/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":[62],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zbrush","tag-zbrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sculptedmesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}