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Teddysouth Republic
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Join date: 30 Oct 2007
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06-20-2009 09:26
Hey all, I'm a new addition to the Zbrush community, and I'm having a really good time learning the program, but I do have a noob concern that maybe you can help me with. Is there any exporter out there, or is there a technique you can share that will enable me to keep the detail I place on my Zbrush Sculpts? I understand that SL can only render so much, but I've seen many other sculpt creations in SL that are super detailed, but don't seem to express the same limitation...once again, I am a noob filled with beans and spunk so any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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Autumn Palen
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Join date: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 111
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06-20-2009 10:39
A few threads down is the discussion for Sculpty Maker for Zbrush by 2K Suisei, which will do exactly what you want if you are on a PC.
The plug in does not works for Macs; so if you are on one, what I do is create a sculpty sphere in Blender with Domino Marama's scripts, export as .obj, import that into zbrush and do my sculpting, export that as an.obj back into Blender and bake my sculpt uv map. Whatever platform you are on, I'd highly recommend looking at Vlad Bjornson's video tutorials for zbrush at his website http://www.shiny-life.com/. They are very informative and entertaining  |
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Rafe Zessinthal
AKA Rafe Phoenix
Join date: 12 Oct 2008
Posts: 151
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06-21-2009 03:34
No matter how much detail you put into your model, SL is going to compress it down to a 64X64 pixel map. Most of the detail comes from the texture you put on the sculpty.
Bake some shadowing onto your build in Zbrush. First get "Material Baker by David Ikeda Version 1.0" and put it in the plugins folder of Zbrush. Find it here http://www.davidikeda.com/zscripts/materialbaker.html Vlad Bjornson has a 26 minute video called "Part Two: Tutorial Texturing" that will show you exactly how to use it to make your sculptys POP. http://www.shiny-life.com/2008/02/12/video-creating-sculpted-prims-with-zbrush-3/ _____________________
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Nina Stepford
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Join date: 26 Mar 2007
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06-21-2009 07:21
vlads page is without any doubt the greatest intro to zbrush sculpties.
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PinkPhoenix Ferraris
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Join date: 28 Jan 2008
Posts: 6
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06-23-2009 17:31
that material baker page isnt working anymore can someone please post it here or host it somewhere please?
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Rafe Zessinthal
AKA Rafe Phoenix
Join date: 12 Oct 2008
Posts: 151
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WOW that was quick...
06-23-2009 17:45
I took that link directly from Dave's page.
Here is a link to download Zscript V2. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/attachment.php?attachmentid=66966 It comes from a forum that will give you tips on using it. Go to the forum... http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=49966 _____________________
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