Here is a procedure for using Spotlight to display reference images in ZBrush. Import a reference image using Texture > Import. Once you’ve imported the image, you should see a thumbnail for the image in the Texture palette. Click the image thumbnail to select it. In the Texture palette, now click the plus/minus icon to […]
How to weld multiple subtools together to make one tool in ZBrush
If you want to weld multiple subtools together to create one seamless mesh, here’s how… Supposing that you have two subtools in the Subtool palette. Turn on Live Boolean (click the Live Boolean button to activate Live Boolean). Then navigate to Subtool > Boolean and click Make Boolean Mesh. This will scan through all the […]
VS Code cheat sheet
This is my personal cheat sheet for Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code). It may be sparse at the moment, but I’m sure it will grow over time. Mainly, this is to record little commands and things that I am constantly forgetting (especially unique ones related to the unique plugins I use). HTML Tag Wrap […]
A tool that helps you write schema.org markup
Hans Polak has created a tool for web designers to facilitate the creation of valid HTML5 schema.org semantic schema’s. Using schema.org semantics to describe content allows search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex) to comprehend the content of web pages. Google, for example, can use these semantics to present search results with rich snippets (contextually better layouts). If you’ve ever […]
Setup Carbon LDP with Stardog container from scratch
In this post, I provide a procedure for setting up Carbon LDP with Stardog as the database, from scratch. The procedure describes how to run both Carbon LDP and Stardog together as two linked Docker containers. […]
Sculpting eyes in ZBrush
I found the following technique very helpful for sculpting eyes in ZBrush; in particular, the use of booleans for creating eyelids. […]
Female anatomy out-of-the-box in ZBrush
I just learned that there’s an fabulously detailed female anatomy model that comes out-of-the-box with ZBrush. I never took much notice of the tool because it’s thumbnail in the tool palette is just a skeleton, but as it turns out, it’s really much more. In ZBrush, press , to open the Lightbox. Find and open […]
Fix for error message – used prefix has not been declared
When developing with the Carbon LDP JavaScript SDK and using the sparqler library, you could stumble upon the error: Error: The used prefix has not been declared. In one case where I generated this error, the complete console error was as follows: ExploreComponent.html:48 ERROR Error: The used prefix has not been declared at IRIResolver.push../node_modules/sparqler/iri/IRIResolver.js.IRIResolver.resolve (IRIResolver.js:23) […]
ZBrush keyboard shortcuts
My notes on ZBrush keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) and control. This page is derived largely from the ZBrush 4R7 and ZBrush Core Online Documentation, © 2016 by Pixologic, Inc. I have reproduced much of the Keyboard Shortcut documentation here for the purpose of personal study and with the hope of adding additional notes that may be helpful to […]
How to create a new subtool from a masked area in ZBrush
Mask an area on the model… In the subtool palette, under Extract, set the thickness and options. Click Extract button, then Accept. A new subtool is generated from the extracted mask… It’s usually a good idea to use ZRemesher on the new subtool afterwards. […]