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Deleting masked and hidden polygons with a hotkey

Deleting masked and hidden polygons with a hotkey - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips & Tricks

Deleting masked and hidden polygons with a hotkey

- Most software of any kind uses the hotkey ctrl + x to delete whatever is currently selected. ZBrush, however, doesn't make it quite so easy. There are a lot of times where it would be nice to simply mask an area of a model or hide part of a model and delete it instantly with a keystroke. As it is now, you have to go through a few steps to actually do that. Let's use a macro and assign it the hotkey ctrl + x to make ZBrush behave like you would expect any other program to. So, let's use this on our Hank model, here. And what I want to do is delete the part of his body that's hidden by his pants. So, if we go into Solo Mode, you can see he's got a full body here, but everything below the waist is definitely covered by clothing. So, we can go ahead and delete that. Now, for this macro, I'm actually going to do something a little bit fancy. I'm going to record the macro on a separate object because there's some things that I want to set up specific for this macro. You'll see what it is.…

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