Amnc --- Materials --- 3/16-?

[aminuts]

AMNC---MATERIALS.jpg


Hi everybody.

Thanks to Svengali we have a great little plugin called Zmats! If you don't already have it...get it here (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=23721&page=4&pp=15)! This is gonna hopefully be very useful for you and your fellow challenge takers to hold some new cool materials.

This week's challenge is going to be left open so that if you create a new great material in the future you can post it here so Pixologic and fellow zbrushers can find it quicker!

Anyway this challenge is to challenge you guys to create some materials. We will start off with some categories and if you can think of some others...we'll add em too. So.....
here are some categories of materials that might be useful to fellow zbrushers:

The Ultimate Skin The Ultimate Metals
The Ultimate Wood The Ultimate Marble
The Ultimate Water The Ultimate Glass
The Ultimate Terrain The Ultimate Stone
The Ultimate Fabrics The Ultimate Alien


Rules:

1. If your material is dependent on a light setup...please post that up as well. Also tell us the render settings you used for that best render!!

2. Please post an example of your material at work!

3. If you learned something about any material settings, please share those too! Specially if you used any special curve settings.

4. Also if you used a material that is color dependent, let us know what the rgb color settings are.

5. You can start a challenge within this challenge....for instance....if you are having trouble creating something like in this recent thread (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=24445) then by all means challenge your fellow Zbrushers to create it!!

6. OOPS! Almost forgot the most important part......
Please please please.....include your nick in the name of the material so that we might give you credit later on when we use it!!!!! for example ....
Jantimswaycoolpaintedmetal023.zmt

This and all MNC challenges are open to everybody!! Newbies....if you discovered a new cool material...share it with us......all you vets out there have learned something along the way......please give the rest of us some hints!!

This mission, should you choose to accept it is for fun and bragging rights only, ZBC and Pixologic have nothing to do with it other than allowing us to have fun with their fantastic program, no prizes other than the pride and kudos you get from creating something cool and if your lucky some kudos from the likes of Meats and Antropus etc.

Good luck and have fun exploring!!

[jotajota]

:D

here !!
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=023394

[aminuts]

Thanks Jotajota!!

oops had to edit because Jotajota's typing fingers are faster than mine!!!:D

[vicart2001]

Here is a new material to play with and tweek.
this is the first time that i have played with the materials settings so i just
made it up as i went along with no techical no-how
By the way great idea for a thread, if everyone had a go we would have a
great range of new materials to play with.
re : here is a sample render.matrial-test.jpg

[ilusiondigital]

What a fantastic thread, i must work in new materials for this post ;)

[ilusiondigital]

My little contribution.

Hope you like it.

A ver si os gusta

mat.jpg

PS: Standards Lights with Zmode shadows

[ilusiondigital]

Another material, it´s a Gi material with ligths.

Let me know what you think

test2.jpg

in AA mode

test2a.jpg

[Bas Mazur]

I used this barbed wire before, here is the rust I used prikkeldraad.jpg

[drjjwow]

fiber-display.jpg Hello folks, good to see you all again,.. wowzer lots of new stuff here today,

I've gone over past post, and man oh man am I'm impressed.. hope you all like a return image.

[DigitalDreamer]

Hi all, I think this thread is a great idea, I was playing with the fiber brush the other day and came up with this. I thought it made a good grass material. :D
grass-circle.jpg

[vicart2001]

heres another oneflaked-bronzerender.jpg

[jantim]

A nice marble material is not easy to make , that is if you dont use a texture map !
I made this kinda fake looking plasticmarble , if you use the diffuseslider in channel 4, you can give it a nice glow at the rim of the objekt you use this material on !

plasticmarble.jpg

jantim

[johnny blaze]

For all you Boot lovers BlackLatex.jpg

[dogbone]

This looks like it'll be a good thead I'll have to make something. But I'd like to plant a thoughtseed about a future zbrush implementation.

Now that we have 4 shader materials it would be really handy to be able to turn each one off or on independently. That would make designing materials so much easier.

[aminuts]

Wow!!

Fantastic everybody!!! You guys really made my day!!

And you really set the bar with these great materials!!!

Keep em coming!!

:tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :tu: :eek:

[Frenchy Pilou]

Have you try to mix with the MaterialPack (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=2466) by Pixolator ?
Pilou
Ps I suppose that this version works with the Zb2 ?

[aminuts]

hi Frenchy!!

yes material pack plus Southern materials work well in z2.

infact they are great foundations for creating and learning how mats work.

and by the way.....you sir are not excluded.....I challenge you to create an interesting material or 6 with the version you have!! I know if you take it up we are all infor a treat.!

[jantim]

Is it stone, ...is it wood.....? Who knows ,and it has a lot of decay, so i named it stonewooddecay...or was that woodstonedecay.?........
jantimsstonewood.jpg

jantim

[Brush-lee]

http://img195.exs.cx/img195/7696/zbrushchocolate7pq.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)
tip: The zip file contains the ligth setup also.


"Post4share"

:D :D I love this Thread :D :D

[jantim]

I think you can alway's use nice rust....so here is one

jansrustyiron01.jpg

jantim

[jantim]

Simple material for people who just want to model a classic bust...its a marble or an alabaster like material..and you can alway's use a texture map to make it more personal !

jantimsmarble.jpg

jantim

[Bas Mazur]

Hi Jantim, finaly the ZMT-Library where we talked about some time ago!
Now you can start your ZMT-Bakery :-)

[jantim]

Yes Bas,...but i have to adapt every material i made...the texture maps i used make most of them to large to download:cry: ......but some of them look almost the same as the originals..even with tiny texturemaps :)

jantim

[jantim]

....what can i say...its just a muddy barkmaterial !

jansmudtree.jpg

[ilusiondigital]

Jantim, friend. I like the first image you posted, the rare marble plastic material, can you share the light setup, it a very very good render.

PS: The face of the last one (the tree) is the orc head of Strike???? :D

Cheers

[johnny blaze]

Suede for your boots. Just do not wear them when it rains. BrownSuede.jpg

[Svengali]

Great thread Aminuts and nice materials guys!

Starting out with very useful stuff... and Jantim looks very happy :D.

May it continue to expand over weeks and months. Anyway, here's mine.

Sven_skin_base.jpg

Please note I've only uploaded THREE materials, Skin_base, Mottled_metal and Beaded_aluminum.

Each group of four heads show four variations of the same material arrived at by some combination of slider adjustments and/or change in the base color.

I hope to put up more later. BTW, there is a light setup too, nothing special.

Sven

[johnny blaze]

the material

[jantim]

I named this Egyptstone,....Mayastone would have been a good name too !
Its named after a green Egypt statue í liked...í'm not sure it was a ceramic or a stone material !
egyptstone.jpg

......Ilusiondigital, sorry i did not save the lightset, ...and Yes its Strike's Ork :o

jantim

....use the specular curve in S2 to to control the brown/orange sheen in the material !

[Bas Mazur]

BasCopperglow.jpg

[Bas Mazur]

BasSmilingRustyFinger.jpg

[Bas Mazur]

BasCryingRustyFinger.jpg

[wenna]

Bas, you are just too funny! I'd like to thank all you have posted! I've only worked once with a material and it came out great... only I lost it. :( That was so long ago... Now you have inspired me to create one, or at least try!

Thanks again everyone!

Edit: ok, it's not much...

Goldish_wenna.jpg

Also, included the lights..

Edit again: forgot the color... it was around 255, 185,0. I played alot with the colors but that's about right.

[DarK ZanatoS]

i would want to post my material and light but i cant upload nothing except for jpgs, i tryied to put the files into a rar but still saying error, what i can do?

[SpaceMan]

A material - use the z2 texture number txtr28 - the diffent images is using the standard light set-up but moving the light round.

[aminuts]

Dark,

if you are using winrar.....change the rar to zip when you create the file.....should be a setting to change to zip....then you can upload it if it's under the file limit size.

[SpaceMan]

You are fast aminuts:cool:

Dark ZanatoS they need to be zip files instead of rar to upload (I think I read in a post that you can zip the rar files and upload them as zip)

[SpaceMan]

spaceexture color.jpg
Same material I posted but a soft reddish color for light and a different z2 tex

[SpaceMan]

aminuts a request as per your intro to the postings.
"5. You can start a challenge within this challenge....for instance....if you are having trouble creating something like in this recent thread (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=24445) then by all means challenge your fellow Zbrushers to create it!!"
I have been trying to get Pixolator's white material to fill in the recess areas of a model with gold or an antique gold. I think MTB posted one where he got the recess areas of the model to be black. I can not find his (MTB's) link again on it if I do I'll post it.

[DarK ZanatoS]

compiled cement.jpg

[DigitalDreamer]

A cast iron material. The pot is a bit rough, but it's just a test for the material.:D The material was too large to post so i ommited Texr 22 from the s4 shader. Just add it back under "material texture" browse to Texr22 for s4. I don't think it actually made much difference with or without..
cast-iron.jpg

[jantim]

For all of you having a skeleton in the closet..now you can give it a material !
An aged and slightly chipped bonematerial

jansoldbone.jpg

jantim

[Bas Mazur]

JANTIM, PLEASE STOP!!!! MY HD IS FULL :D :D :tu: :tu:

[shivmoo]

make space then :lol::tu:

[aminuts]

Yeah Jantim ...I only have 300gb left on my hard drive!!:D

Just kidding.....Keep em coming everybody these are all great!


Spaceman....hopefully a little bit later I will have something for you.

[Kerstin]

Thanks for all these great materials :)

[Bas Mazur]

let's make it a 2005-night challenge!!

[aminuts]

Amen Bas!!

[jantim]

I spent some time tweaking this clay-material...hope you can use it...if not make it better and post it in this thread !

clays02.jpg

jantim


just a little update ...i think the clay01a looks a bit better..tricky material the initial render looked good but on another model the clays02 looked not that good

[Ron Harris]

Jantim, that is a pretty kewl image. I like the material too and thnx, but I wanted to mostly comment on this piece. Very very kewl work. It has balance and I love the lighting. Really caught my eye, and thought I would chime in about it. thnx for sharing
ron

[jantim]

Thank Ron, i had fun using the alpha-brush & mixing these images with some of my Zmodels ..i'l try to update on my clay-material the cavity-settings look a bit to strong in the diffuse-settings :confused:

jantim

[monstermaker]

aminuts, Thanks for creating this great thread. Thanks to everyone for the creative materials and artwork

[Frenchy Pilou]

Form is just a Sphere3D ZoomIn with a grid mask deflated
+ MaterialPack (http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=2466&highlight=material) N°51 by Pixolator, any control, no best render, 30 second realized :rolleyes:

Have fun texturing :cool:
texture1.jpg
Pilou
Ps Frame is not Zbrush ;)
Pss The Glen Southern tut (http://www.southerngfx.co.uk/general/tutorials/1.materials.htm) about material :rolleyes:

[jotajota]

hey FRENCHY PILOU..excelente macrotextura :tu: :tu:

[ed_the_atom]

Seeing what these materials look like outside of ZBrush and Corel (which turns them yellow) if they look alright I'll post about 5 skin materials..

Model a Pix one with a quick unfinished play


6aa.JPG

7a.jpg

[aminuts]

Hiya Ed,

Glad to see you are still floating around, Look forward to playing with your skin discoveries!

[aminuts]

Hi all!

Just a note to say I changed the title of the thread so it could be found in a search quickly and easier to find later if you want to add some materials!!!

Thanks to everyone who has and will add to this thread!!!

[Rawnrr]

excuse me for sneaking a newbie question at the end of this thread....but...is there a tutorial as to how someone would make material files here?

Thanx

[aminuts]

hi,

There is not a whole lot on materials yet, You can find some useful info in the 1.55b manual for one. I recommend following alot of Jantim's threads....he's very good about sharing what he learns as he goes!!!:D A search will also turn up some old cool materials and here and there some tips from none other than Pixolator or Aurick.

Also RyanKingslein (hope i spelled that right!!) wrote a brief pdf on what he discovered about materials......he promises he is working on a more in depth tutorial so keep an eye out for that!!!!

a big help to you will be to download Sven's script (link found on first page of this thread) It allows you to save materials with light setups so you can see how any material looks under your favorite lights......so you can start with material a...alter it, change lights etc etc and save each incarnation!

hope that helps some!

[Mollyka]

Hi all!:D
I am looking for a material that looks like wax(see image attached).Is there anyone who can help me?



Image1.jpg

[aminuts]

hi Mollyka,

if you go to the first page of this challenge, You will see a link to another thread....in the step where I talk about challenging others.....in that thread Sven posted up a marzipan material you might find to your liking. If not let us know and we'll try something else!!

[Mollyka]

:) Thanks aminuts,the marzipan material looks great ...but it is not exactly what I am looking for right now...I am looking for the material and light settings that pixolator used for these wax toys (see image attached):cry: Can you help me,please?

wax_material.jpg

[aminuts]

hi,

Here is a link to Pixolator's cool mat and lights. He posted a .zbr which you can load in the document window and that will load his material and light settings all you have to do is go to the respective menus and save the set up.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=13928

In the pic you posted Pixolator has used colored lights to give it color...he likes to do a warm and cold light with a neutral one in the middle so if you are looking for that exact look you will have to mess around a bit with the color of the lights.

if you have any troubles let me know and I will attempt to help you with some settings so we can get it how you want it.

[jotajota]

:td:

[tdrs]

jotajota, very beautiful mat ,thanks:tu: :tu: :tu:

[Moochie]

Thanks jotajota.:D

[ilusiondigital]

You can get a few materials here

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=22783

[vivien]

stupendous material!!! bravo! ;)

[headbirth]

I haven't seen any glass or translucent shaders presented. Come to think of it, many of the posts on the forum in general don't use glass materials.

Any takers? Produce a convincing glass shaders with refraction, reflection, etc... maybe even some lighting to use with it?

[jotajota]

este post es un challenge..yo lo invito a participar en el.
es una excelente oportunidad para explorar Zbrush.. :tu:
this post is a challenge. . I invite it to participate in it .is an excellent opportunity to explore Zbrush

[aminuts]

hi headbirth,

A son of Zeus? ;)

A good challenge for sure.

I would like to point out some recent Water threads you might like to take a look at in the main forum.....they might give ya some ideas.

I, myself, have been wanting to delve into this a bit and will try this weekend to play....I have some notions to try with some very little known even less used features of zbrush that I think I can make work for some interesting results.....whatever they may be .....it will be fun experimenting and if I get the results I want, I will definitely post up mats, lights, and a tutorial.

But first and foremost will be the next newbie challenge. Then and only then, I play!!

[headbirth]

That's great aminuts! I look forward to seeing the ressults.

After owning ZBrush for a year and not doing anything with it. I have finally gotten around to exploring and love what I'm seeing.

[jantim]

I haven't seen any glass or translucent shaders presented. Come to think of it, many of the posts on the forum in general don't use glass materials.

Any takers? Produce a convincing glass shaders with refraction, reflection, etc... maybe even some lighting to use with it?Well you can create a transparent material...but not one with refractions...for transparency you need two layers -you could use the refraction-option for transparency but then you need to bake the layer the object is going to "refract" ...confused ?....i know i am !....
I think it all has to do with this program and the fact that it is not a 3D program in its essence...its a paintingprogram with an edge...the pixol...a pixel that contains material and dept information...sometimes it just needs layers to get a result...creating a material is not the final answer :confused:

i've included a render of a icelandscape and the material used to make the icebergs-or i should say snowberg- the material is not transparent...but you can set your own transparency in the material sliders ....the icecube like material is an object drawn with RGB in a low setting, for more info about refraction surf to the thread from Bas !

fronzen landscape.jpg

jantim

jantim

[marciani]

Hey man,
You are THE MATERIAL!!!!
Thx for your time.
bye
Leo

[jantim]

Hi Leo,

Are you going to make great looking snowgirls with it !?

jantim

[Strannik]

SUper materials here! Respect to all who did'em :)

[Mr micro26]

fantastic , cool materials big thanks to all
:tu:

[Moochie]

Thank you, Jantim!

[Bas Mazur]

I removed some more in protest

[jotajota]

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[aminuts]

Ok kids, whilst I love you all this thread is for Materials not the immaterial. ;)

While I thank you for keep this thread on top so folks can find it, I would much rather you used all this energy to create materials for those folks who gave side challenges on materials!!!

And so ya'll have something to do I will be posting a new challenge within the hour!!

[aurick]

Several posts have had to be removed in order to keep this thread on topic and courteous to one another. Please keep your posts on the topic of materials, and keep your criticisms constructive.

Thanks! :)

[Bas Mazur]

I miss you and some chocorefl :lol:

[Yainderidoo]

Would like to see this thread going again....

Yainderidoo

[SpaceMan]

dito Yainderidoo

[WoL_]

A lot of wonderful material!
Good work!