Blender<->Zbrush

[Roja]

Figured I should post this here:

http://www.zbrush.info/site/index.php/Zbrush_to_Blender_Guide

I started to make a wiki guide for Blender & Zbrush users. It mainly goes over how to import & export between the programs.


To do the Normal mapping in Blender you'll have to get a CVS build until Blender 2.43 is out. You can find the builds here: http://www.blender3d.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=18&sid=cc26b897ab915293050465e23d0be323

[Erklaerbar]

great contribution!:tu:

[womball]

Awesome! Is this on the pixologic website too? Well at least a link?

[lemonnado]

WOW, I have not check up on Blender for ages. Just downloaded it and had a look. They included YafRay now, which is a cool free render engine.
Also animation and rigging seem to be in there. Just spend 10 minutes and got this out of it... Blender looks pretty cool!
blendertest.jpg
Cheers
Lemo

[wckedsunny]

looks good to me as well :)

will try it out tonight

[voolger]

thanks that you started to do a wiki for zbrush and blender.

will be helpfull.

ciao voolger

[Roja]

Glad you guys find it usefull :)

I will try to update it too, when I get free time. But if anyone else wants to add to it feel free! I'd really like to get a displacement map, and cavity maps section in there. Not sure how that works in Blender yet though, so I'll have to try things out.

[womball]

To get displacement to work, you need have the disp button near the nor button pressed. And there is a disp slider which you slide to about .2 or a rather low number. Since blender renders fast you can safely use trial and error. However your going to need at least a sub-d level of 3 or 4 to get a decent displacement.

[N°tAdmin]

Shift + P key to open a small preview render window. Drag it around and resize it over anything to show a preview.

[Cyjal]

Blender only uses 8 bit displacements so watch out for stepping in the model. (I've been using medium-high poly models and normal mapping to get around this.)

[Roja]

Yeah that's the problem I encountered when I tried it Cyjal..so we may just have to wait until Blender supports the higher bit images to get good results with displacement.

[thrive]

Hey I actually founf your wiki doc before your thread but I'm still haveing trouble getting the normal map to work. I follow the tutorial in the quickstart guide and used a morphtartet to make a normal map for a simple shpere and then I follow your directions to use the normal map in blender but I still get some weird thing like this. The original deformations I have are a few small deco brush strokes with z-intensity of 10 and some standard brush work in areas. Are these deformations to big to be seen with just a normal map ? Or am I doing so procedure wrong? Any help would be welcome. Thanks
Problem.jpg

PS I am very new to blender and i have never really worked with any type of mapping in zbrush before so im still just getting the hang of this.

[Roja]

Well, it's kind of hard to say what exactly you're doing wrong and such without knowing more.

Make sure it's a Tangent space normal map from zbrush that you generated. And post here shots of your high-poly zbrush'd sphere, along with your normal map so that we can see what it's supposed to look like.

[thrive]

Sorry Safari is giveing me a weird "cant show page" message when I try and Upload jpegs but when I can post i will.

[ZETS]

Any news on ZB displacement maps inside Blender. It is amazing app that should be used by a lot ZB artists, especially cause it is free an has some really great rendering tools. Few examples: http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/gallery/art-gallery/

Cheers,
Marko

[tokio]

thank you very much for blender <-> zbrush