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Using Curve brushes

Using Curve brushes - ZBrush Tutorial

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Using Curve brushes

- [Instructor] In addition to drawing out single copies of a mesh, you can also create curves to guide the placement of those copies. Let's take a closer look. First, let's try this with the horn brush that we made in the last video. So let's hit B on the keyboard to bring up our brushes, and let's grab that custom horn brush that we made. So, as you recall, just clicking and dragging draws out copies of this horn. But, instead of doing it that way, let's hit CTRL Z to undo that. Let's go up to the stroke menu, let's turn on curve mode. All right, let's see what happens if we try this now. So, you can see we get a curve on the surface of the model with copies of that dragged out. Now because we had symmetry turned on, this curve likes to try to snap to the center of the object, and sometimes you can get some strange artifacts that way. There's a few ways around this: you can try click and drag on the end, and try to pull…

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