STEP BY STEP

POSITION STRAWBERRY SEEDS WITH NANOMESH

01 MODEL THE SEED

Append a sphere and reshape it to look like a seed. Place it flat in the viewport and choose the Zmodeller brush. Go to Brush>create>create Insertmesh and select the Append option to add it to the menu. You may want to keep an eye on the poly count for the seed when creating the original one. Nanomesh will multiply that value by the number of instances created later. Your project could get very heavy very quickly.

02 PLANE3D

Append a Plane3d, then go to the Geometry menu and press the Reconstruct Subdiv button until it becomes a single polygon. Delete higher subdivision levels. Hit B on the keyboard and press the Create Insertmesh button at the bottom of the window.

Choose the strawberry tool, turn on the radial symmetry and adjust it to the number of dents. Next, drag out the planes in the areas designated for the seeds. Hold down Ctrl to make all planes the same size. Adjust the radial value as you go. Once done, split the planes from the strawberry with the Split>split To Similar Parts option.

03 ZMODELLER AND NANOMESH

With the planes tool active, open the Nanomesh menu. Select the Zmodeller, right-click on the plane and choose Polygon>action>insert Nanomesh, Target>all Polygons. Choose the Zmodeller seed and drag them out on top of the placements (planes). You can adjust the size and position with the sliders in the Nanomesh menu. If you prefer to target polygons by rows, in order to control the size and rotation of the seeds manually, you will have to make sure you adjust the symmetry radial count size to match the amount of planes in a row.

04 SPLIT TO PARTS

When you are happy with the position and size, you can separate the newly formed Nanomesh from the placements by scrolling down to Inventory and clicking on One To Mesh for every index. Once all of them have been cleared, you can separate the seeds from planes using Split To Similar Parts.