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Making a macro to expand or contract masks

Making a macro to expand or contract masks - ZBrush Tutorial

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Making a macro to expand or contract masks

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- Here's a trick that I use all the time. There's a lot of instances where you might have something masked and you want to increase or decrease the coverage of that mask. Let's look at some tips for automating that process. I want to pose one of the fins on this shark. We can control what gets posed with a mask. So I'm gonna go down to a lowest subdivision level. It's good to pose things on the lowest subdivision, and I'm just gonna zoom in here and just hold down Control and just start painting a mask. I want to mask off this fin, but one thing you might notice is that as I get close to this part of the fin, the mask accidentally bridges across and starts masking off on the body, so I'm gonna hit Control + Z to undo that. I'm just gonna start masking and just sort of mask up to a certain point, but not all the way, and then we could shrink our mask and get a smaller draw size here and then kind of more tediously come in and try to do this very carefully so that we only mask the fin…

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