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Advanced PolyGroup tools

Advanced PolyGroup tools - ZBrush Tutorial

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Advanced PolyGroup tools

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- [Instructor] Polygroups are the workhorse of modeling and sculpting in ZBrush, and if there is one skill you need to master quickly, it's how to create polygroups. We've explored this briefly in another weekly video, but we'll go deeper into all the options you have to create polygroups. Let's take a look at it. The first thing you need to do is bring up Lightbox and let's go ahead and grab our DemoHead, and I'm going to bring him slightly closer to the front, and then let's go into Polygroups. And these are all the options that you can use to create polygroups. The first one, Auto Groups, works on and off, so if we actually make sure that we see the polygroups and we click on this guy, in this case, it shouldn't work because there's not really pre-defined features that should be auto-grouped. This works better in hard surface modeling, but for this guy, it's not going to be very useful. One of the best way to do this is by Masking, and most of the time, this is the first way that…

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