I learned how to do fishnet stuff in ZBrush!

[Bonnie2001]

I've been studying up on making fishnet items in ZBrush for a couple of days and I think I have it figured out.
Here is a quick fishnet (cuff, wrap, drum or whatever) experiment:

Here is a Google image of what I want to make for Dawn with what I've learned, probably before the weekend. A simple fishnet glove similar to this for my first attempt:

 

[Faery_Light]

I've done fishnet in Photoshop with trans maps but not as a model.
Looking good there.

 

[Bonnie2001]

Thanks FL. I played a bit more just now with putting the net part on the ZBrush demo soldiers hand.

I'll probably want to make the net mesh thicker when I make it for Dawn's hands, for now I'm just testing it and learning as I go.
I have to leave it for a few hours as I need to walk Marley around the park before the wind and cold gets too bad.

 

[Miss B]

This looks very encouraging Bonnie. Good job.

 

[Glitterati3D]

Very nice, Bonnie!

 

[Bonnie2001]

I got the bulk of the work finished last night, and today I did some WIP screenshots for here. The first two is the almost finished mesh on Dawn's hand, same with the last one but with the fishnet subdivided.

All I have to do now is to weld a few loose verts and then do the fun part - texture and displacement maps! I probably won't get to that until Sunday evening and then I'll post finished screenshots.

 

[Faery_Light]

Great work on them.

 

[Bonnie2001]

Thanks FL. Think I'll go to bed now. I haven't had an early night at all over the school Christmas holidays, and we go back to school on Monday! That's one of the reasons I want to get the fishnet method worked out asap, otherwise I'll be sitting in maths class thinking about resolving that instead of maths.

 

[DaremoK3]

Great work, Bonnie!

I did not know that ZBrush was capable of this type of work. I created a net shirt like this about fifteen years ago in Wings3D, and it was a beast on both the software, and my available hardware at that time (so many crashes).

Very clever use of n-gons at your poles to redirect your netting.

 

[Miss B]

Looking good Bonnie.

 

[Glitterati3D]

When you get them done, let me know and I will pass you my gloves from the Coat, hat and gloves set so you can copy the rigging from them.

Or, send me the hat and the other stuff you have done and I will rig them for you. You have enough pieces done to have a Sweet Deal of accessories done!

 

[Bonnie2001]

Or, send me the hat and the other stuff you have done and I will rig them for you. You have enough pieces done to have a Sweet Deal of accessories done!

Thanks very much Traci. I'll wait until I have a couple more items made and send you the whole lot together.
Here is one of the gloves on Dawn's hand. I didn't texture it yet, just applied a shin black plastic for pre-vis:

 

[Miss B]

I'm really, really liking the way this has turned out Bonnie. I can't wait to see what else you come up with.

 

[Ken1171]

Why make it with geometry? Wouldn't a transmap + normal map look the same in renders, and with a fraction of the poly count? Unless it's for the challenge of having it modeled - I sometimes like to do that too.

 

[Nod]

Thanks very much Traci. I'll wait until I have a couple more items made and send you the whole lot together.
Here is one of the gloves on Dawn's hand. I didn't texture it yet, just applied a shin black plastic for pre-vis:

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Looking very good indeed.

 

[Pendraia]

Looks great Bonnie! I take it as Traci's offered to do rigging this is likely to be Poser only? Looks great though...

 

[Glitterati3D]

Looks great Bonnie! I take it as Traci's offered to do rigging this is likely to be Poser only? Looks great though...

Yeah, sorry. Maybe you could give her a hand with DS rigging?

 

[Pendraia]

I doubt it Traci, as I don't think my skill set is good enough for a professional product...part of the reason I haven't released any of my own stuff, but thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Bonnie2001]

Why make it with geometry? Wouldn't a transmap + normal map look the same in renders, and with a fraction of the poly count? Unless it's for the challenge of having it modeled - I sometimes like to do that too.

Yes it was really a challenge Ken. Transmap is easy and I wanted to do it with geometry. 11,000 points for a pair of gloves wasn't terribly high either IMHO, and I could have reduced it to around 7,000 if I tried a bit harder.

 

[Ken1171]

I like a challenge every once in a while! ^___^