alien wip

[jantim]

Yes, i had to do it, make an alien in Zbrush .
The scene must have an alien, sort of cryo-tube and techno stuff, metal and
flesh in the style of Giger ! At the moment i'm working on the alien and his shader . The cooling fan on my computer is giving me some trouble ,so i hope
i can keep working, had a crash earlier



and another shader variant

[lovecrafty]

Cool pics, I like the first variant more with the dark hollow for a nose, the second looks like his buddy filled up his nose with cement, or maybe he needs TP for his facially located bunghole?

[jantim]

Yes, it looks like cement i saw a Giger-character with such a nose-plug
that one looked more like bone !
I did not make this model from a sketch, its more Zbrush 3D doodling, so
you can make things that in the end look not so great: "at that moment it looked like a good idea " isn't that what they say !


jantim

made some skinshader variations, these are blended on top of a baked layer

[tdrs]

First, the result of this work is very good, but I want to ask for a few problems***65306; after bake, continuing to bake. How do you reserve the shadow effect***65311; Because once switch to preview mode, The shadow result that is calculated at the best mode is lost .

[jantim]

Try using this method tdrs :

Do a render with material" A ", no shadows

Bake this layer at 99 %

Now change this material for a new 4 shader channel material "B" as you
know by choosing a new material when the old one is active , it replaces
your old material "A" ...but you have baked this material "A " on your layer
so now you just have to toggle the " multiply button" on S1 to have a
render with a blend between "A" and "B" ( multiply off) or a render with the
material "B" only ( multiply on ) Render with shadows

In this render i used this method,

[tdrs]

i use two group light sets
two mat ne rock mat ,another is 4 shader channel material

[sadicus]

Please post those cool shader settings!

[jantim]

Its not the shadersetting that looks cool on this model !...its the blend between
the two materials , sadicus . This material/layer blend method is a very crude way to blend materials , all depends on the way two materials will react !
Mostly i use a darker material first and do a layerblend with a lighter material
next,...other 3D programs often have beter way's to blend shaders then Zbrush
but its an option, so sometimes i use it....and sometimes it just makes your
material darker and uglier, you can combine it with a texture, or use two vari-
ations of the same material.....you just have to do lots of experiments, just as
tdrs is doing wit his rock material

jantim

[jantim]

Just a small update on the information of baking a layer at 99 %....in the
previous post i forgot to mention that by using" multiply on " you have the advantage of blending the new material from 1 to 99% blend and the option of using the "intensity", "saturation" and"hue" sliders !

I have posted a picture of a scene with material "A" that is replaced by material "B "



and the picture with the blending in percentage



Sorry for the double post in the "thumbnail"

[Sebcesoir]

Damn! JAntim, your first skeletton shader is terrific.....

The stone shader is great too.. Your the king of Zmats!

[jantim]

Thanks Sebcesoir...i'm kinda happy with it to...but its a 4mb material thanks to the image maps in the material !

[Sebcesoir]

Well in fact theyr are both wonderfulll

How does they work? is it a based on uvs material, or a kind of procedural, or light projected mat?

[hawkline13]

You ARE truly the king of the shaders, and the modeling is beautiful too You are a Zbrush master no doubt about it.

[blakshep]

bigup jantim

[aminuts]

Thanks for the heads up Jantim!

Unfortunately at the moment the blended one will not load.

but your info as always is quite thorough so will (darn it ) just have to experiment my self.

Have been on a dig or two and that material you have on the left is really quite good! But of course!!