From the course: ZBrush: Modeling Footwear

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Placing the grommets with insert mesh

Placing the grommets with insert mesh - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Modeling Footwear

Placing the grommets with insert mesh

- [Instructor] Now that we have a single grommet we need to make copies of it that are exactly the same size and positioned precisely on the surface of this shoe. I'm gonna make a custom insert mesh brush for this. So let's see how it works. Okay, we're still in our tool we created the grommet in. So I'm gonna go in to sub-tool and let's rename it to something that makes sense, like Grommet, and let's turn it into it's own brush. So for this I wanna look at it from a perfect top-down view. I'm gonna hold down shift while I do this so it snaps. This is because when you make an insert mesh brush the orientation that you're looking at the mesh from is the same orientation that the object is going to be created on the surface of another object. So let's go up to brush and let's create insert mesh brush. So this is asking us if we want to append it to the existing brush or make a new brush. I'm going to make a new brush because I don't want it to be part of my standard brush. And you can…

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