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so i made this in zbrush after watching a ndo2 video on youtube. im intruiged by ndo2 and may buy it sometime. i wanted to see if i could use some very simple techniques in z-brush to work up something as fast as ndo2.

heres how it went
i made a polymesh plane in zb then subdivided it 5 times
i pulled up and down some masked areas in z
i used an out of the box curve insert brush to do some tubes and adjusted them. i turned on transform mirror x and they tiled across the edge of my plane. that was a nice surprise.
i used another out of the box mesh insert brush to do some bolts. turned of curve mode and just placed them where i wanted them
then i spearated the plane object from the rest by polygroup and subtool extract
framed my plane object up to the 2048 canvas then unhid my pipes
rendered on best with ao and grabbed the doc from the texture menu
dropped the model to the canvas
then applied the normal material with a white color using the simple brush to the model that was dropped to the canvas
went to the texture menu and grabbed the doc again
exported the maps to ps
in ps offset the doc by 1024x
selected the border artifact and some pixles on the side
filled using the menu fill option and used the drop down for content aware.
did some touch up and finito!!!!!!!!!!

simple believe it or not it only took about 10min maybe 20

obviously way more can be done to finish. but this shows you can get something out pretty fast once you know some zb stuff.

Description
so i made this in zbrush after watching a ndo2 video on youtube. im intruiged by ndo2 and may buy it sometime. i wanted to see if i could use some very simple techniques in z-brush to work up something as fast as ndo2.

heres how it went
i made a polymesh plane in zb then subdivided it 5 times
i pulled up and down some masked areas in z
i used an out of the box curve insert brush to do some tubes and adjusted them. i turned on transform mirror x and they tiled across the edge of my plane. that was a nice surprise.
i used another out of the box mesh insert brush to do some bolts. turned of curve mode and just placed them where i wanted them
then i spearated the plane object from the rest by polygroup and subtool extract
framed my plane object up to the 2048 canvas then unhid my pipes
rendered on best with ao and grabbed the doc from the texture menu
dropped the model to the canvas
then applied the normal material with a white color using the simple brush to the model that was dropped to the canvas
went to the texture menu and grabbed the doc again
exported the maps to ps
in ps offset the doc by 1024x
selected the border artifact and some pixles on the side
filled using the menu fill option and used the drop down for content aware.
did some touch up and finito!!!!!!!!!!

simple believe it or not it only took about 10min maybe 20

obviously way more can be done to finish. but this shows you can get something out pretty fast once you know some zb stuff.