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Engraving text around the inside of a ring

Engraving text around the inside of a ring - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips & Tricks

Engraving text around the inside of a ring

- Here's any interesting scenario, what if you need to have a pattern or text wrapped neatly around a model? The tradional solution is to break out Photoshop, but in this video, I'll show you how to get it all done using Zbrush. So we've got a ring model here, and let's say we want to put some text around the inside of it. And this text should wrap all the way around. Sounds pretty complicated to get text nice and neat so it's wrapping all the way around. You might try projecting it, but then you'd have to project one part and then move it around and project another part and then move it around and project another part. It could get really complicated, really fast. So let me show a technique that might be quite a bit simpler. First thing you want to do is make sure that your model has UVs laid out. I have the model broken down into polygroups. If I hit shift, F you can see there's a polygroup for the inside, one for the top edge and one for the outside, one for the bottom edge as…

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