Zbrush Hair Tutorial Part 2 - Installing And Using The Hair Brush

To follow along with this tutorial, you will need to download my hairbrush, which is available on Gumroad, using the link below. There are two options you have for using this Bush in zbrush. You can either log in as and when you need it or you can have it so that it loads each time ZBrush does. I will show you how to do both to load it as a one-off hit B and then click log brush, navigate to the brush and load it in and that's all there is to it. However, if you want to have it so that it loads each time you launch ZBrush, navigate to the folder pixologic zbrush, 4r7, r8, whatever you're running, z, startup and then brush presets. You just want to copy the brush file into there and now, like I said, the brush will load up each time. Zbrush starts in this section of the tutorial. I will teach you how to use the her brush with the her brush selected. I will make a stroke notice that the straw goes from thick to thin. You can change the settings of this thickness using the graph in the straw menu the higher. The point is on this graph, the thicker it will be when it's drawn out. I like to use three points so that it doesn't tape it to uniformly from start to end. Just so you're aware you can edit a stroke without having to redraw it. The way you do that is by first making the change you want to make. So let's say I want to change the overall thickness, then tapping once on the curve line, and I just want to point something like ear, because this is something I personally struggle with for probably over a year, if you want to make it thicker like I just Did don't resize your cursor, while it's blue that won't work resize it away from the stroke while it's red and then click on the curve? Another handy thing to know, particularly when doing her is this hidden button up here on the picker depth. You can see that it says once said and continuous set. The difference between these two is important, because continuous said is going to follow the form of the underlying mesh like this. However, this is not always what you want. So if I switch this to one side, you can see how the curve maintains the depth at the point at which it starts. You will see me use this for the strands of her at the front shortly, but for now I'm going to keep it at continuous set. The her brush is a multi mesh brush in ZBrush for a you can access the different meshes at the top here, but in previous versions you'll want to use the hotkey M. I will explain what the other meshes do later, but for now I'm just going to use the multi brush. Ok, so now I'm ready to make my stroke on this mesh and I'm going to go off from root to tip it's worth, knowing that you don't have to make the stroke all at once, because if I move the brush close to the tip like this you'll Notice the cursor turns blue, which indicates that I can continue my previous stroke. All learning to do now is tap on the base mesh to confirm the straw. Once I have my stroke in place and will now come to polygroups, Auto groups, this will give each stranded so on poly group, which means I can come off to brush auto masking and turn Artemis bipolar groups all the way up, which means I can now move Each strand individually, you can achieve the same effect by simply moving the move topological brush, but by making each strand its own group, you assign them different, colored wire friends. This becomes really useful for differentiating the hers when there's a lot of strands to deal with now. You'Ll see me click this autonomous poly group button up here which basically toggles this slider between 0 and 100. This button is available in a set of plugins called nix tools, which you can find links in the description below before moving on. I want to split the hose away from the base layer and to do this, I'm going to ctrl shift click the base polygroup to hide the her strands. Then I'll ctrl shift drag to invert the selection and come over to sub tool, split and then split hidden. Ok, so now we're left with our first group of her strums, which I'm free to move around at will, but not is that the best of the hers isn't right. So, let's fix that first I'll turn off ours on mass polygroups, so that I can manipulate them all together, then I'll unmask, the end and control click to blur the mask a bit. Now I can use my gizmo to position the base into place. This is the basic idea for using the herb brush. However, I'll go into a little bit more detail when creating the secondary shapes later to this week's video. If you'd like to get a headset on next week, then don't forget, there's bonus goodies for sale. These include all four parts of the herd tutorial, plus some extra bonus tutorial, an e-book guide which works well for a quick source of reference. The home model created in this tutorial and, of course, the herb brush used in this tutorial, which you can also get hold of separately by visiting my patreon page, you