Texturing Sculpties... ?

Okay i thought the hardest part was making sculpted objects... i was wrong.
Now finally i can make the damn things, now i can't find a way to make the textures for them.


Programs i have:
Zbrush 3.0 (this is what i use to create)
Maya (i hardly use this)
Photoshop

In zbrush i can't seem to save the files to photoshop, i want the texture and the material, i did the tutorial by S.T using the Projection Master, but it came out all sorts of wrong, is there any other way you texture your sculptie?

Also im having a hard time drawing in Zbrush, if anyone has any tips

you coul do it by hand - i do

I'll send you the grid I use in-world, I think its made by chosen few... anyway, you just see where the squares are and paint it based on that in photshop... i explain better in-world...lol

I recommend using Maya to texture the sculpty or using a combination of Photoshop and Maya (Photoshop to paint, Maya to apply the texture). Then use a technique called baking to let Maya generate a texture that will fit perfectly to the surface of the sculpty. I wrote a short tutorial about this. You can find it here:

http://www.landgasthof-waldschaenke.de/sculptytutorial/quick_maya_sculpty_tutorial_v1.1.pdf

Ahhhh finally Leben. I was looking for a quick baking tut for a while. Vielen dank )

...so if you have Maya, you might as well start learning to use it. It does everything.

Search these forums *and* the wiki.secondlife.com WIKI for lots more advice.

lee

I have been using zbrush to paint on the texture. I use a sphere that I import from the wings SL plugin models as the base of my model, sculpt it into what I want it to be, export the model for conversion to a sculpt map later, then I increase the geometry divisions until my model is smooth, sculpt in details, paint the basic colours on with the zbrush painting tools, as well as use projection master and the material of choice to create highlights if necessary, export the texture, and then take it into photoshop for cleaning and detailing. So far I've had some excellent results doing it this way. I can expand on it here if anyone is interested, and I plan to write some tutorials to help sculptie newbies like me with some of the information I had to work out the hard way

Please explain how you paint and create the texture in Zbrush
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I tend to:
- do a 'generate basic material texture' in PS.
- create material in Maya with the right shine, reflection, transparency, illumination etc. (usually blinn or phongE)
- apply, light & bake
- edit baked texture in PS for specific details
- reapply texture on maya model
- (repeat last 2 steps until i'm satisfied)


- upload sculptmap + final texture to SL
- rez prim, make sculptie
- (fix sculpt, as it is again messing up edges (rotate 90deg CCW in PS))
- apply texture to sculptie (usually needs a rot of -90 and some minor adjustment of 0.01 in texture tab to show up like it looked in maya)

Is there any way to do it in blender?

Yeah, basically you can swap Blender for Maya (and Gimp for PS) in Damanios's workflow and do the same thing. Well apart from the rotating of the images. That's not normally needed.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Render_Bake