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Making mountain ranges with a custom brush

Making mountain ranges with a custom brush - ZBrush Tutorial

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Making mountain ranges with a custom brush

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- Z brush is a great tool for sculpting terrain, especially mountains, but to sculpt every mountain in a whole range can actually be very time consuming. In this video, I'll show you how to make a custom brush that very easily creates entire mountain ranges in seconds. So what I want to do is just create a small section of a mountain range and then turn that into a brush. So let's start out by sculpting on a single plane. So we'll go into subtool and append, a new plane 3D, and let's go ahead and make this active and we can hide the sphere for right now. Let me zoom out here. Okay, let me turn on wire frame, shift F, and I want to have a plane that's just a single polygon because that way it'll be very easy to lay out UV's with it and then also I can generate a displacement map from a single flat polygon and get all the detail into an alpha. That's getting ahead of myself right now so let's just simply start out by restoring all of the subdivisions down to a single polygon, so I'm…

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