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Use alphas with ShadowBox

Use alphas with ShadowBox - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips and Tricks

Use alphas with ShadowBox

- Shadowbox is a tool in Zbrush that allows you to build interesting shapes with simple or complex alphas. Let me demonstrate. So, the first thing you need to do is bring up something on the scene here, so let's go ahead and use Lightbox, and let's go and grab a polysphre. And once we have the polysphere in the scene, we can go into the geometry, and then scroll down until you see shadowbox, and then click on shadowbox, and then click on the button Shadowbox here. So, the resolution is basically how much resolution you're going to have in the object you create from the alphas, so let's go ahead and click on shadowbox, and right now, from the shadowbox, it basically changed the way our spheres, our polysphere, looks like. So, what we're going to do is basically clear the mask so we have a blank state here. So, the first thing you need to do in order to basically create some alphas here, or mask to create new shapes, is to change your mask pen. So, right now, we have a mask pen. I have…

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