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time, effectively changing the
alpha shape! brushes are now visible along
There are a variety of other
interface changes which will
be highly valuable to artists
as well. The IMM selector the fly. It is also now possible to
creates a new menu for brushes
that can contain a variety of
content such as the IMM or your library so much easier.
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VDM brushes. Stored variant
rounded out with new support
the top of the screen in a
quickly browseable menu, size scaling with your resolution
providing seamless changes on
cut, copy and paste between
brushes, making customising
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ZBrush 4r8
Beta artist stephen The neW VDM BruSh
anderson created this Vector Displacement Meshes allow
fishBot image with new complex organic forms, including those
feature live Booleans with overlapping parts and backfaces,
to be stored as brushes for use on
other meshes. Think of this as a brush
which uses a vector displacement map
in place of an alpha. It allows for some
fantastic new shapes to be sketched
as well as easing the creation of highly
complex surfaces.
liVe BooleAnS
Create real-time fully editable
Booleans directly in the SubTool
palette. Use any classical Boolean
operation on a series of SubTools to
create highly complex shapes. These
Booleans are very fast and fully
editable until you choose to collapse
them into new geometry. The Boolean
operators will respect poly meshes,
primitives, NanoMeshes and Arrays.
Even noisemaker will be factored into
the Booleans!
giZMo 3D
A new gizmo has been introduced to
move, scale and rotate objects in the
ZBrush window. You can now easily
set the object centre, move multiple
SubTools at once and even utilise
a variety of deformers to further
manipulate the shape of your objects.
The gizmo and deformers will even
respect masking across SubTools!
lAZYMouSe 2.0
A subtle yet wonderful addition, for
many many times over the past few
years I have wanted the ability to easily
continue a stroke or a pattern after
stopping to rotate the model. With
Lazymouse 2.0 and lazy snap, you can
do just this and cross over a stroke
without adding buildup to the previous
stroke. This is invaluable for things
like machine panel lines, for example.
3D TexT
These new features are 3D Text and Vector Shape Creator
enables you to easily create strings
for multiple languages and text of text in ZBrush as 3D objects and
you can even import a SVG file to
to help support larger monitors generate a logo inside ZBrush. Use
and touchscreens. this in conjunction with the Boolean
system to engrave words and designs
into surfaces.