My beta testing doodles

[michalis]

You can find some of them here
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...148#post851148
As I also used zb heavily sometimes. We were testing GoZ after all.

A sc render here


And a small tutorial for Sc to Zb. As subdivided tri meshes are a little useless in zb. As we're still waiting for the auto retopology tool.
The quasi auto retopo then

1. GoZ to zbrush
2. duplicate the mesh
3. use decimator master at extreme settings (try a 3-6 k resulting mesh)
4. export as obj and import again (have import settings-tri to quad on)
5. append the two meshes
6. subdivide and re project.

decimation in sculptris isn't good, you need more time with reducer to have a 3-6 k cage export and some problems when re projecting.

Sorry for this nonsense sculpting, I was just testing and this is a difficult subject to reproject-decimate.

compare the imported sc mesh and the after quasi retopo one. I'm using a shader that shows the problem



the quasi retopo based on decimation master. A really helpful for zbrushing mesh

[michalis]

And some more doodles. Doodles always,

this testing sculptris and 3dcoat, dropped to voxels (hi density) and rendered there. Added some hardsurf background.


testing new blender render engine "cycles"


After this 'quasi auto retopo' zb BPR


The gladiator LOL
Just sculptris, zb BPR (chains via curve tool 3dcoat, direct export)


Testing difficult topology, holes, quasi auto retopo, more zb sculpting BPR


A drapery study, one of the first tries in sculptris. Here after retopo (3dc) and some zbrushing. BPR


Some painting testing (after retopo and decent UVs) rendered in blender cycles.

[Etcher]

Beautiful! Thanks for posting

[michalis]

thank you Etcher.
Just having the feeling that I'm disappearing, a huge eraser deletes me. As a human, an artist or anything else.

[Francesco Mai]

Hello dear Michalis,
thank you very much for the news about quasi retropo...!When I have some time I am sure I will appreciate a lot your very important suggestion...See you around..And compliments for your digital "classical"sculptures"!

[michalis]

thanks Francesco.
And mostly thanks to the person that rated my work with 1*.
Erasers...

[Francesco Mai]

Of course 5 stars for you!

[SolidSnakexxx]

Always full of ideas checking out your works!

[michalis]

thank you both of you
@ solidsnake
waiting for your beta posts. Better in main zb forum and a link here IMO.

[JoseConseco]

Ah, you were so eager to post those, and finally sculptris is out. Will you post them on blanerNation?

[michalis]

Jose
I won't continue this masochistic obsession, why should I post them to blenderartists? Who cares anyway? Except me and a few friends?

[michalis]

Another fast, this morning. Scultris only testing the hidden smooth algorithm of zb (shift, release shift when stroking, what a terrible UI)

[Knacki]

Another fast, this morning. Scultris only testing the hidden smooth algorithm of zb (shift, release shift when stroking, what a terrible UI)

I don't understand that.
If I press shift in zBrush it is smoothing. Doesn't matter if I keep it pressed or release it.
Old sculptris navigation is keep shift pressed as long as you want to smooth.
So you can draw and smooth with one stroke without releasing it.

Both fine for me.

Is this different in sculptris alpha 6 zb navigation?

[simpo]

Too good... The blender cycle rendering is quite realistic.

[michalis]

Thanks you Knacki, simpo

releasing the shift key when stroking releases a different smoothing algorithm hidden in zbrush. It smooths differently. To understand this, just subdivide the tri sculptris mesh in zbrush. It subdivides turning everything to quads. This means a mesh full of 'star like' artifacts. Now try to smooth this. The hidden function is the appropriate one. Why pixo doesn't provided this as a brush, I don't know.
many thanks to 'half life' user for this. Here
http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Smooth_Brushes