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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- This tutorial shows how to use ZBrush and the ZModeler tool to create a basket setting for a stone. This technique will work with the new ZBrush 4R8 and earlier versions, but does not apply for ZBrush Core (this version does not have a ZModeler tool).
It covers techniques for measuring the thickness of the prongs, making them thicker, and tapering the basket.
I would recommend that you download my ZBrush interface if you are a jewelry artist. It pulls some of the most commonly used features and places them at the bottom of the window where they are easier to access. Follow this link, and there is a configuration document in the folder, along with ZBrush materials, brushes, and a hotkey file. drive.google.com/open?id=1b8P...
UPDATE July 16, 2019:
• I've added a "stones" file to the folder, and I'm creating a small tutorial on how to add these to your piece.
• Here is the link to the Pixologic Downloads page where you can find the "RingMaster" plugin. You'll expand the file, then drag the contents to the ZBrush folder, in the ZStartup folder, then into the ZPlugs64 folder. I ONLY use RingMaster for adding stones. If you start out with their ring mandrel, it does some strange things to the scale of your model and makes it so the XYZ Size function and Transpose Line tool don't reflect the same size when measuring. I'll address this more in another video. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I'm learning 3D modeling, and your video helped me a lot!
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LOVE LOVE LOVE! You have such a talent for breaking all the steps down. Thank you so much, you’re an Angel. Subscribed!
You are one of the best Zbrush Tutors I have come across. You make Zbrush so easy to understand. I just subscribed
Good tips and techniques Kat. Thanks.
Very useful video. Very kind to share brushes and stuff. A big thank you!
Best Zbrush videos!
thank you Kat, very good tutorial. I learned a lot! DANKE :-)
Thank you for the understandable and nice tutorial! Helped a lot!
Mapax you’re very welcome!
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Thanks for making this tutorial! I spent a while trying to do this but got stuck at tapering.. when I finally was able to taper the prongs the setting turned from a circle to oval. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Thanks Kat!
Excellent tutorial! Subscribed! If you'd like to hide the IMM Viewer (that window that comes on along the top when you use the ZModeler brush) go to Preferences>Interface>IMM Viewer and turn off AUTOSHOW/HIDE. Make sure you do not have the zmodeler or any IMM brush selected when turning it off. Config>Store Config should lock it in. More zbrush jewelry videos please . And thanks for the Custom UI.
zedbrush thanks! And thanks for the IMM tip...I never thought to look into turning it off.
I am currently wrapping up a major remodel on my parents’ house, and when I wrap up, I’ll be back to ZBrush. Actually, at the moment, I took a “break” and am sitting here on my computer playing with Project...someone asked how it could be used in jewelry.
Anything in particular you’d like to see? Thanks again!
You could also make a hotkey for that button. No requests yet (thanks for asking). I'm going to go through what you have first. Really enjoying your vids and teaching style so far!
Great idea on the hot key! I use them mostly for symmetry (4,5,6,7) and deleting lower subdivisions (3). I think I also recently added one for Lazy Mouse.
ZBrush is a blast! Although in the beginning it literally made my cry...I couldn’t get my head around it. I’ve used many other CAD programs, but this is a different monster altogether. So my goal is to make it so ZBrush never makes another jewelry artist cry!
Love hotkeys. I use them for my fav brushes mostly (1=Move, 2=Clay Tubes and so on ... Lazy Mouse has L by default for turning on and off but I have the Lazy Radius out front in my custom UI for easy access. Zbrush makes almost everyone cry ; ). But you are correct .. it IS a blast. So much fun. So vast. I learn new stuff all the time. I recently discovered that you can slide the top and side menu bars (not menus but rather the "button bars" where Edit and Draw are) by holding control, clicking in an empry area (between buttons) and dragging. It's a small thing but is so helpful. I've learned several "small things" already watching your videos. I encourage you to do more. @@KatAdair
Thank you! I’m hopefully wrapping up the house this week...🤞
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Kat Adair Thank you for sharing nice tutorial . Do you have plan to do more videos?
I have two questions about the tutorial. 1. After I created a cylinder and adjusted prongs then while picking a brush zmodeller and used it on the object.It keeps letting me to convert the object to polymesh 3D. How can I fixed it ? 2. I got a problem when benting a basket setting. while I using a standard move tool(I have older Zbrush version) the prongs on the middle didn't go along the way together and that made prongs got overlaping . How to fixed ? ❤️ Thank you in advance ❤️. I'm a newbie, learning to do jewelry design on this programme.
hello Kat,
i just stumbled upon your videos as i'm new to z brush as a jewelry student could you show how to do pendants for names, zodiac signs, monograms?
thank you
Hello ! Your tutorials are great!!! Quick question...I downloaded your UI and seeemed load except for the bottom panel. Is there anyway you can offer any assistance? I did both the 208 and 19 versionsi but both did not change the bottom section
Hey Malina! Thanks for your kind words. The bottom part won’t appear until you place an object on the stage, so I’m wondering if that’s what’s happening. From the right panel, click the orange SimpleBrush icon, and choose a primitive. Click and drag on the stage to place it, press the T key, then look for the Make PolyMesh3D button on the far right near the top and click it. The custom interface should appear at the bottom.
The other possibility is that it was loaded from the preferences menu, but not “stored,” and ZBrush was restarted. Has it never showed up? Or did it appear, but then not appear the next time the software was launched?
Hopefully you’ll see this quickly and respond...we’re snowed in here in Austin, and there are rolling blackouts, so I’m not sure if we’ll have internet.
@@KatAdair thank you! That is what happened. I figured it out. Do you have a tutorial adding gemstones? You mentioned it in the description video but I did not find it.
I am about to release a full jewelry course, but I can tell you that there is something called Ring Master in the ZPlugin menu that contains gemstones. I believe it is automatically added when ZBrush is installed these days. Uncheck “on Band”, then select a gemstone shape. It will add it to the project you’re working on.
One important thing to note...if you are working on multiple ZTools (say you’re working on a ring, then use SimpleBrush to start working on something else, and both items are shown in the area by the SimpleBrush icon), you MUST save your work before using the plugin. It will wipe everything out. I generally use the “Save As” button in the Tool area to save individual ZTools-these can contain multiple Subtools-rather than using the Save option to save a ZProject, which contains everything currently open. Hopefully that makes sense. 😃
@@KatAdair this great! Thanks so much. You're an amazing teacher. Are you releasing the course on TH-cam or somewhere else?
This is an awesome teaching video, thanks for that but I have a question, I couldn't manage to download the stone tool, isn't it in the file or should I look for somewhere else ?
I just added a Stones file to my Google Drive...it has 4mm stones in a variety of shapes in one file. Use the Load function under the Tool palette to load, then switch to your project and use the Append function to add the stone. Whatever stone is "active" in the Stones subtool will be the stone that shows up as you Append another subtool.
I have been using Pixologic’s RingMaster plugin for the stones ONLY. you can add very low poly count stones to your project. However I do not like the way that RingMaster handles sizing of the rings. But it does have a feature that allows you to “add gemstone” and choose a size. If you’ve been following my videos and working with size like I do, the stone will come in very small. Easily fixed by resizing, though. I uncheck the “on band” option.
In the description, I've added a link to Pixologic's Plugins page as well.
Stay tuned...I have another video on making a basic band, then turning it into two different rings coming. It deals with size a lot! And thank you!
@@KatAdair Thank you a lot! The problem is solved :)
@@KatAdair I'm not seeing 'stones' in your google folder. Are you staying the gem stones live in the RingMaster plugin?
Yes, look in the Ring Master plugin, toward the bottom under the Gem Stones section. Uncheck the button marked On Band, then press Add Gem Stone Subtool. You will probably need to center the Gizmo 3D...switch to the Move mode and when you see the Gizmo, click the third icon that looks like a Google Places icon. Then click the Home icon over the Gizmo. Use the arrows to drag the stone into position. Let me know if that doesn’t do the trick!
@@KatAdair Perfect. Thank you!
how can i messure real gem size in zbrush ?
nazmul hoque, I just saw your message...sorry for the delayed reply.
That is a tricky question with a lot of different answers. I use Ringmaster (from Pixologic) to bring in a low-polygon count gem. But when I use ZBrush, I actually resize my model so that the XYZ size IS the mm size. I have to make other adjustments, like working at a lower Dynamesh resolution, but I can use the transpose line as a measuring tool, but also if I bring in a cylinder for a ring, I can enter the mm size as the XYZ size, the resize models around it. I have another video where I use this technique, but I’ll do a tutorial here shortly where I explain my technique.
Other artists are using Scalemaster or Ringmaster to establish a scale, and it works for me, but I prefer working at an “actual size” and not a scaled size. Hopefully you found an answer before I replied...my parents went into assisted living and I’ve been downsizing and remodeling their house for the past year.
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how i can add the ring to the basket?
You want to append a ring 3-D in the Subtool section on the right. Then you’ll switch to the move mode, and use the arrows in the gizmo 3-D to position the ring. If you’re feeling brave, you can also append a Cylinder3D, divide it three times to smooth (command or Ctrl D), in the Geometry section use Del Lower to remove the lower subdivisions created by dividing. Then we use something called Boolean Folder to subtract the cylinder from the ring. Place the ring and the cylinder In a folder, with the cylinder at the bottom. Turn on the “moon” icon (subtract) on the cylinder, then use the gear on the folder to Boolean Folder. That will give you a flat inside to the ring shank. Use the Gizmo to resize and position the ring. 😃
Are you related to Patrick Adair? hes also a ring maker
No, but my husband is Bobby Adair, not the jockey, but the post-apocalyptic/sci-fi author. 😁
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