Smart Hard Surface

Introducing the revolutionary new Smart Hard Surface plugin for effortless hard surface modeling. This game-changing add-on creates a good quad grid over your existing concept sketches with just one click. Transform your sketches into production-ready assets today with Smart Hard Surface!
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[@BestMods168]

This is so awesome for creating trims within the hard surface. I always struggle to create trims within an armor piece and have it conform to the current shape.

[@gaoyu8179]

I think this function is very similar to auto retopo, except that one draws with a mask and this one draws with a line, and I don't really feel much difference between the two.

[@smart_modeling_team]

Thank you for your interest in our products. The only difference is that the lines allow you to draw more clearly and this is more important for hardsurface models. In addition, this plugin does not have the ability to adjust the number of polygons using the slider. We did this in order to speed up the mesh creation process. Smart Auto Retopo plugin is more focused on retopology of large parts of organic models. And in this plugin, we tried to focus on creating small parts of armour or mechanisms. We are currently developing version 2 for this plugin. It will work easier and faster, but only in ZBrush 2023. And we will try to reduce this plugin to just 2 main buttons.

[@gaoyu8179]

Sounds great, will I get a free update to the new version if I buy the first one?@@smart_modeling_team

[@tak950]

personnaly i think it is's not worth the same price as e.g. auto dynamesh, retopo or smart sketch. while those plugins make work much easier and faster, but most importantly, they add functions that would be hard to get in the basic zbrush (you would have to search a lot for this functions), this one is just a closure of a certain workflow in the menu: 1) duplicate subtool 2) turn on sculptris pro and paint lines 3) polygroupit from paint 4) select polygroup and delete hidden 5) zremesher.

[@smart_modeling_team]

Hello. Thank you for your interest in our products. The price of an extended commercial licence of the Smart Hard Surface plugin is significantly less than other plugins. The price of a product is built not because of its uniqueness, but from a number of other factors. For example, we have Smart Curve, Smart Primitives or Smart Color ID plugins, and their functions are unique, but these plugins are absolutely free. We have looked at your algorithm of actions and we see that your list is actually incomplete. If you follow your path you need to do: 1. In the brushes menu select paint brush and customise it, or customise any other paint brush, adjust brush size, disable switches for sculpting, etc. 2. Go to the tools menu and duplicate subtool. 3. Go to the color menu, fill the object with color and set the color settings for the brush. 4. Go to the menu, switch on sculptris pro and set the necessary settings for this tool. 5. Go to the zplugin menu and find the polygroupit plugin. 6. Hide unwanted mesh and go to the Tool menu and delete the hidden mesh. 7. Go to the zremesher menu and set the necessary settings, you will spend a lot of time tweaking the settings and getting the desired mesh. As you can see, almost every item on this list requires the user to know how each ZBrush tool works. Imagine a 3d artist who doesn't have this knowledge or a newbie discovering ZBrush for the first time. They want to create, not waste time on technical documentation. Or they can buy our plugin, click just 4 buttons, get a nice grid to work with and move on. Over the years we have realized that time is the most valuable resource and users will gladly use plugins because they value their time. They don't want algorithms, scripts, lists of settings, etc. Users want only one thing - to create.