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Locking an object to the surface of another object

Locking an object to the surface of another object - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips & Tricks

Locking an object to the surface of another object

- One of the more difficult tasks in ZBrush is making different objects able to move together as one. In this video, I'll show you how to use NanoMesh to place one model on the surface of another model so that when one moves, the other moves just like you would expect. So let's see how it works. Okay, so here in our exercise file, you can see that we've got two different models, we've got a shark, and we've got a remora. And you might know about remoras, they're these little fish that have a suction cup head and they can stick themselves onto the body of larger animals like sharks and whales. And you can see here, the remora is a separate SubTool, and so you might think that you could go into your move manipulator and move and position this remora in place. And that's fine, you definitely do that. However, if then you go and move your shark, that remora is not going to go along with it. So then you would have to reposition the remora to fit the position of the shark, and that can take…

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