View plane based flattening

#1

Hi! I already spent few hours for sth I think should be an easy thing, but can’t find solution. In Mudbox you can flatten the geometry based on the camera plane. How can you do this in ZBrush?

I found this in ZBrush help but there is no further explanation
“The Trim brushes are based on the Planar brushes but provide a different behavior based on the normal of the surface or the screen working plane. Compared to the Planar brush which are restricted to a clicked point on the surface, or a defined path, the Trim brushes do not have these restrictions by default.”

So, the solution should be one of the Trim brushes?!

Thanks!

#2

im not 100 % sure what your looking for but i think your looking for the Clipping brush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_LoGsVUHc

see link above

#3

Thanks. Yes, with clipping brush you can probably achieve the same result (especially when used along with masking) although it is a completely different approach. I later found the brush called TrimFront (and loaded it manually from the brushes folder) that works like the Flatten brush in Mudbox (set to camera normal).

#4

Now I see that you can achieve the same thing with Picker menu settings.

#5

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