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ZBrush 3 Main Manual

• Getting Started
  • Installation and Licensing
    • Installation
    • Licensing
  • Key Concepts
    • ZBrush Modes
      • 3D Edit Mode
      • Paint Mode
    • 3D Models
    • ZBrush Canvas
• Interface
  • Palettes
    • Palette Controls
  • Trays
  • Tools and Other Inventory Lists
  • Configurations
    • Interface Customization
  • Hotkeys
• Sculptor's Workshop
  • Getting Started Tutorials
    • Sculpting a Head
    • Painting a Head
  • Drawing Your Model On The Canvas
  • Symmetry
    • Symmetry Across An Axis
    • Poseable Symmetry
    • Radial Symmetry
  • Sculpting Brushes
    • Brush Types
    • Brush Alphas
    • Brush Strokes
    • Brush Controls
      • Wrap Mode Tutorial
    • Brush Edit Curve
    • Lazy Mouse
    • Saving Your Brush
  • Masking
    • Using Masks
    • Brush-Based Masking
      • Cavity Masking
      • Backface Masking
      • Color Masking
    • Topological Masks
    • Masking Controls
  • Keep It Separate: Polygroups
    • Auto Groups
    • Uv Groups
    • Group Visible
    • Material Groups
  • Paint It! Texturing in ZBrush
  • Working with Multiple Objects
  • Subtools
    • Appending Subtools
    • GrpSplit: Splitting Your Mesh Into Subtools
    • Tips For Working With Subtools
  • 3D Layers
  • Mesh Extraction
    • Mesh Extraction with Masking
    • Mesh Extraction With Visibility
    • Mesh Extraction Using Layers
  • Strike A Pose: Transpose
    • Understanding The Action Line
    • Posing a Model
    • Transpose: Moving a Model
    • Transpose: Scaling a Model
    • Transpose: Rotating a Model
    • Blurring Masks and Joint Rotations
    • Transposing With Bones
  • Strike A Pose: Rigging
  • HD Geometry
    • Using HD Geometry
    • HD Geometry Controls
    • Rendering HD Geometry
  • Retool It: Understanding Topology
    • Creating New Topology
    • Projecting Topology
    • Importing Topology
    • Topology: Convert To Main
    • User Created Topology and Reflow Lab

• Communicating With The Others
  • Bump, Displacement, and Normal Maps
  • Displacement Exporter
  • ZMapper
  • Integration With Other Apps: ZPipeline Guides (written for ZBrush 2)
  • ZScripting

• The Material World
  • Materials
  • Sampling The Material World: MatCap
  • Lighting
  • Rendering The Big Picture
  • ZBrush Home Movies

• The Dimensional Rift
  • The Pixol
  • Space Poly Continuum: 2D, 2.5D And 3D Understood
  • Crossing The Great Divide

• Tutorials
  • Character Modeling: "Birth" by Francois Rimasson
    • Beginning with ZSpheres
    • Sculpting and Posing
    • Details, Texturing, Shading, Rendering, and Compositing
  • Character Modeling: "Pinup Girl" by Alex Huguet
    • Establishing the Base Mesh
    • ZBrush Sculpting
    • Posing
    • PolyPainting
    • Exporting to 3DS Max
  • Character Modeling: "Eagle Head" by Joe Lee
    • Start with ZSpheres
    • Retopologization
    • Adding Feathers
  • Detailing Characters: Making Hair by Joe Lee
    • Blocking It In
    • Adding Strands
  • Sculpting a Skull With Image Planes
  • Topology and Reflow Lab: Plakkie and other users have created a great tutorial, originally on ZBrushCentral and now on the wiki, all about using topology in ZBrush 3. Well worth checking out!
  • Material Capture by Meats Meier
  • ZBrush 2 General Tutorials (Covering many topics–Good for new users.)
    • Introduction to the ZBrush Interface:Using controls, understanding edit modes, basic painting, manipulating 3D objects.
    • Tutorial: Rusted Golden Idol:Some basic 3D modeling, painting materials and textures, alphas and masking.
    • Not So Primitive: Parametric Models:Creating complex models using parametric adjustments to ZBrush's 'primitive' models.
    • Hiding and Showing Model Parts:Learn how to hide or show model groups or polygons, to more easily work with areas of interest.
    • Tutorial: Creating a Polymesh Z:Use model partial visibility to create a shaped plane, create a 3D model from it using the powerful Difference Mesh feature, maintain crease sharpness in a subdivided model.
    • Tutorial: Modeling a Telephone:Edge loop and low-resolution mesh modeling, Projection and Normal maps, edge crisping, (a different way of maintaining edge sharpness).
    • Tutorial: Warrior Image:Addresses a huge number of ZBrush's features! Creating models with ZSpheres, high-resolution detailing and texturing, positioning multiple models in a scene, lighting and rendering, and more.
    • Tutorial: Dragon Lizard:Creating low-res meshes from ZSpheres and edge loop modeling, detailing, texturing, materials, lighting and rendering.

• The Reference Library
  • Controls Reference
    • Menu and Submenu Contents and Descriptions
  • More Resources
    • Pixologic Plug-ins
    • User Plug-ins
    • User FAQ (Written and maintained by users.)
    • ZBrush 2 Wiki: The old ZBrush 2 wiki. All of that information is also contained in this wiki, but the old wiki may be useful for users still on the previous version of ZBrush.
    • Keyboard Shortcuts