Playing With Ed_The_Atom's "Skull" Tool . . .

[Kruzr]

'Afternoon . . . :)

Haven't had much time lately, to play with ZBrush, so today I was playing around with "Glow - 'New' Shadows - & Transparent Textures", on Ed_The_Atom's "Skull" tool. ;)

Thanks for the tool Mr. Atom, I'm sure I could have done something much better for your model, but at this point I'm just playing around with version 1.23. :o Hope you forgive me??? :(

Have a good one & I'll see'ya later . . . :cool: Mark.


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[juandel]

ola, Kruzr! :D
me likes that :tu: :tu: :tu: enlightened skull... have you won any insights into "new shadows" and want to share them? the results of my lil experimentations with this feature have been rather meagre until now!

[Kruzr]

Ola Juandel . . . :)

Yes, as a matter of fact, I really like the new "shadows"! They give a much more realistic impression of shadows. If you turn your shadow on for a single light source / intensity at what ever you want / & I have been getting best results with length at 500, then turn on "ZMode" & "Blur" between 4 & 8, you should get a pretty good looking shadow. I've been playing with the shadows all afternoon & the new shadows are 10 times better than the old ones. ;)

I'll post an example in a little while, just so you can see the results. ;)

Have a good one . . . :cool: Mark.


PS: This is an image with 2 point lights in it. The only thing negative I can say is, it took almost 1/2 hour to render this image, & the resolution was only 1500 by 1125. That's about 3 or 4 times as long as in version 1.13. :confused:


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[ed_the_atom]

Hi Kruzr,

Glad to see the skull being used......and in a way I must look into as well....looks like there is potential in the shadow business as well.....so much to learn.

[Kathy]

Whoa Kruzr!

ICE ice BABY!! (okay I dated myself....)

Very cool. Reminds of a Saturday morning cartoon nemisis....for Batman or Spiderman....

SKELOice...One frozen stare will KILL you!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rhom]

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Kruzr I apologize for sticking this in along with yours-I'm not trying in anyway to one up you-but after I read your post about it taking half an hour to render I had to try it since I hadn't tried very much shadow work thankfully mine didn't take quite that long-but the main reason I did post this was becuz some of the objects were drawn in sub-mode and the shadow turns out a little strange.Again hope I'm not intruding to much here.
ed_'s skull and martins hand waving Buh-Bye!

[Kruzr]

Hi Rhom . . . :) Please, your never intruding!!! :D Anytime you want to throw in an additional image or post on one of my threads your more than welcome to do so. :)

Rhom, what do you mean by "some of the objects were drawn in sub-mode"? Sorry if I sound dumb or new to ZBrush, but I can't recall the term "Sub-Mode" in ZBrush? :confused: If you would explain how I could find "Sub-Mode", I'll play with the shadows in that mode & see what I get. ;)

See you's a little later & thanks for the comments . . . :cool: Mark.

PS: I like the way you laid all those flat rocks out for the floor covering, bet it took some time to get them arranged so everything fit??? :rolleyes: I like your image, very nice. :)

[juandel]

... the shadow knows! :D

thank you, Kruzr (and rhom) for these fantastico examples... :tu: :tu: :tu:

juandel