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Selecting more precisely with Magnifying Glass

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Selecting more precisely with Magnifying Glass

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- Did you know that Zbrush has a built in magnifying glass? It lets you zoom in wherever you use the cursor. I actually didn't have a reason to use it until Zbrush gained the ZModeler brush. The ZModeler brush allows you to perform all kinds of different actions on individual polygons, edges, and points. I do a lot of 3D scan cleanup, which means a lot of filling holes, bridging edges, deleting individual polygons, and on meshes that are very dense. The magnifying glass helps me see what's going on on meshes like these. So let's see how it works. All right, so this model that I'm working on is from a 3D scan that I made in a graveyard of a monument. Let me zoom in a little bit closer here so we can see what's going on. I'm gonna hit Shift F to turn on wire frame. So you can see it's a very dense mesh, it's very chaotic 3D scan, typical of what you'd get from any kind of 3D scanning, and it needs a lot of cleanup, like all 3D scans do. So we need to fill in these holes where the scan…

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