ZBrush 2018 Live Boolean Tutorial : Subtools

In this ZBrush 2018 video tutorial I show how to use Live Boolean with Zbrush 2018 and how to manage the subtools before and after you created the Boolean Mesh.
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[@grumpyalison4869]

You have revolutionized the mind numbing, computationally intensive nightmare that is booleaning high-poly meshes for 3d printing. Best tutorial ever.
I also found this was quite useful with the subtoolMaster plugin since I can model in whatever random program I want and then import all the meshes in at once and have them line up where they should be.

[@louvey2074]

exactly what I needed, thanks so much!

[@WeaponizedEd]

Thanks! I love how straightforward and to the point it is!

[@ThunderThouin]

This is a custom interface. You should probably say where the live boolean button is situated in the menu.

[@mikymike2429]

This was frustrating me a lot, but this video did it for me. One little detail missed = wrong result. Thank you!

[@ritapuhakka3817]

Thank you for the tutorial! Very helpful :)

[@ceruleanllama5917]

life saver thank you for this video

[@ferranadzarahernandez5427]

Superrr useful! Thanks a lot!

[@xoyo__]

awesone, thank you for your help!

[@AlexLashko]

Thanks man! This was very helpful.

[@JayAnAm]

Thx, great you like it

[@dexterousd]

I tried this with 8 subtools above the mesh I wanted the boolean on and the boolean object to subtract. It did exactly what you said but ended up merging all of the above subtools into one. The work around is to just export the boolean mesh, then import it back onto an appended object in the original file. Just in case a noob is scratching their head. Thanks for the info and vid. Very helpful.

[@VeryFunStudio]

So simple to understand. :)

[@xinjin9592]

Thanks!! Really helps.

[@nehalhalim7664]

very useful thanks!

[@TaylorColpitts]

THANK YOU!

[@Drawgonian]

this was helpful . thank you!

[@JayAnAm]

Ok, great

[@EROSNERdesign]

GREAT THANKS

[@watch9994]

thx for video :)

[@asklapios]

thank you

[@Mystic-realm]

Ohh dang this is so helpful, thank you so much! Be blessed fj

[@user-gj3hf1fo7m]

thnx

[@HB-wk6zj]

thx man

[@mahmoudzaefi2958]

Thanks

[@gelisob]

Since nobody mentions, I will.
In the default ZBrush UI, the Live Boolean switch is readily accessed to the left of the Edit mode button. (Right after "Home page" "Lightbox")

[@Playlistdrawing]

Thanks

[@_Shinique]

For the people that download custom interfaces or simply don't like to have anything on their interfaces, it is located in the "Render" Menu under "Render Booleans." I really wish they would group everything in each feature together.

[@Numocron]

Wow this is a very interesting tutorial I love it.😃👍

[@JayAnAm]

Thx, glad you like it!

[@Numocron]

Jayanam your very welcome.😊

[@Junqers]

Thank you!

[@JayAnAm]

You're welcome!

[@decemberfrostpaindine7987]

2nd.. thanks for the knowledge.. bless you..

[@JayAnAm]

You are welcome

[@designjorge]

this is so confusing. it should change once you click on Make Boolean Mesh. sometimes, people that build the software want to complicate something that should be simple.

[@xxVeidxx]

Maya users...

[@Xicolami]

Sometime it works and sometime it doesn't . Why? Why sometime I click on make boolean mesh and it seems it's doing the work, but the new subtool never appears on the Append menu?

[@dddmod6596]

I have no button live boolean

[@crimsonBen]

that button makebooleanesh is so damn hidden, thanks alot!

[@FPChris]

EVERYTHING in ZBrush is ass backwards

[@sebs-shenanigans]

Ok what if I need to have it in the same tool as my other subtools? How do i do that?
God, coming from blender Zbrush is like a bloody maze

[@derekumana6031]

copy the tool then paste it onto the main subtool

[@experica]

You first show me which menu tab the "Live Boolean" function is in, and then use it.

[@MrDarling1502]

After i "make boolean mesh" the generated subtool does not have any changes from the boolean.. so frustrating what am i doing wrong..

[@JayAnAm]

Make Boolean Mesh creates new subtools that you have to select then.

[@dicloniusN35]

there is no button "Live bolean"

[@AstroSquid]

helpful, thought I wish it didn't have to make a new tool

[@progamedev0]

Посмотрите это видео с переводом от Яндекс

[@lowerastral1963]

Where IS "Live Boolean"? You just have it on your work area, but I can only find a smaller Boolean button in my subtool palette with a grayed-out button below that which says "Make Boolean Mesh". Doh! Ignore my last question. It's just way too early in the morning for me and I haven't had my coffee, yet. I found it RIGHT where it is on your screen as well. Sleepy me. I'm going to be ok. I'm going to be ok. I'm going to be ok. :-)
I am following you all the way up to the point where I have created the live boolean and it creates a nice subtool that is exactly what I want, but, it's now in its own subtool layer and when you switch back to or put your new boolean into the original subtool layers, I don't see WHERE or HOW you're doing that. So, what I'm saying is that now I HAVE a nice booleaned subtool, it's all by itself and I don't know how to insert it into the original subtool palette. I think I might have to find another tutorial with someone who explains it in a way that I understand. But, at least you got me up to the point where I can create a boolean. Hahaha! Thank you for that, at least. Definitely a big "Thumbs-Up!" from me.

[@gusmaiawork]

the way you just cut in between parts without explaining what's going on like from 0:27 to 0:28 really makes everything harder to understand

[@chrislumino2890]

Can someone please tell me the name of this music.... please🙏🙏

[@gelisob]

it's darude sandstorm

[@vivekjani5625]

thanks bruhhhh

[@Shiva4D]

ZBrush UI its ass pain

[@jager54]

man why is this so complicated

[@kevinschantalle]

dont works not unterstandble realy bad

[@FPChris]

God how I hate this program

[@dddmod6596]

I don't understand why waste my time and record a useless lesson with an active live boolean button at a time when it is not clear how this button appeared there.

[@accountnew6474]

this guys accent is so frustrating...

[@becobuioco]

GREAT! TX!