From the course: Modeling a Female Android in ZBrush

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Making wires and cables

Making wires and cables - ZBrush Tutorial

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Making wires and cables

One thing you almost cant do without when making an android is to have wires running through it. Making things like tubes in ZBrush used to be very difficult, but now with Curve brushes, it's much easier. In this video, we'll look at some ways to use these special brushes to make some wires. So let's hit B and then C on the keyboard to show our curve brushes So there's several different brushes that let you use curves to create new objects as insert meshes. For now let's go and click on Curve Multitude. So with this brush, you want to draw on the active sub-tool. So for now we've got the knee assembly as the active sub-tool. One thing I want to do is turn on the Opacity mode, so we can kind of see through the legs. Okay. Now let's just draw a curve. Now the thickness of the tube is determined by the size of the brush cursor. So let's increase this a little bit. Something pretty big. And then if we click on the tube again, what we get is an update in the size of the thickness of the…

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