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Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: Roninfang
Post Time: 08-28-2010 at 05:53 PM
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Just asking for some tips of making the most out of my high res zbrush models

i just noticed when i export the high res models from zbrush into normal maps well details tends to get lots when i transfer them back as normal maps onto the low poly mesh

aside from higher resolution normal maps, or adjusting the low res by adding more divisions and such

any other ways of making the most out the zbrush high res models?

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: KIIIA
Post Time: 08-27-2010 at 02:03 PM
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Hello everybody!
I have a small problem concerning displacement maps. I Have a high res model of a couch with sculpted stitches and seams on it and i want to apply these stitches per displacement map to a renderable object.

Until now, the Displacement map produces pretty strange results in the rendering (tried with mental ray for Maya and Houdini). The rendered seams look spiky and ugly.
The Displacement Settings in MultiMap Exporter are all standard (Scale 1, Intensity 0, Adaptive 1, 16bit). The sulpted Seams on the Highres Model look good and smooth.

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What could cause the problem?
And what exactly do the two values "Intensity" and "Scale" mean? (The Multimap Help offers a pretty confusing explanation)

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: Decency
Post Time: 08-25-2010 at 11:13 PM
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Is this true?

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: JohnPetrucci
Post Time: 08-25-2010 at 10:59 PM
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Hello all, I have a model in zbrush that has the uvs tiled in multiple spaces i.e 0-0, 0-1, 0-2, 0-3
and has polypainted textures on it. I tried to create a texture from polypaint but it gives me a black flat texture map.
is there a way to export the texture maps from their respective uv spaces??

thanks in advance

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: MileDream
Post Time: 08-24-2010 at 12:17 PM
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its strange pixologic hasn’t released any demo video of its new features yet.

I wonder if there is any good demo out there showing you the texture painting workflow using Spotlight, it looks like a kick ass feature.

Franklin

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: aniOcean
Post Time: 08-22-2010 at 06:32 PM
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Do anyone know how to avoid crashing in 3dsmax when you import obj from zbrush to max?

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: Decency
Post Time: 08-21-2010 at 04:44 PM
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For example, my little shelf on the right has to Tools panel in it, and I find that the new Subtool and Geometry rollouts are super long. I would love to rip the subtools one out and put it in the shelf on the left so I don’t have t scroll up and down so much. If anyone knows of a way to do this I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: musashidan
Post Time: 08-21-2010 at 05:57 PM
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Is the plugin buggy? It pre-computes the mesh and goes through the process of decimating………..but nothing happens. The mesh remains undecimated. Resorting to exporting high res .Obj to 3.5 for decimation, as it works fine there.

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: CG_Tiger
Post Time: 08-21-2010 at 10:56 AM
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Has anyone installed Zbrush 4 on an Atom netbook?
What is the performance like, how many polygons can be achieved with say 2gb memory?

Forum: Pixologic ZBrush
Posted By: SheepFactory
Post Time: 08-20-2010 at 05:21 AM
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I have lost like 10+ hrs of sculpting work this past two days because sometimes when I save over a file and reopen it the changes are not saved and it reverts to the old version. Has anyone had this happen to them? At first I thought I was doing something wrong but after the third time it happened I am not so sure.