Matcap repository

[xcalibur75]

big hello to everyone,thx 4 all of these awesome materials!!!!!!!!!they help so much and so much appreciated!!!!!!thx again,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MonteCristo]

Hey all, just dropping a quickly to let you know we've added 4 more free matcaps to the library at CGCHain.com. Help yourselves. Click image above.

Will need to register to see the links tho' (No catch -- just forum software).

~Monte.

[KrakenCMT]

***** EDIT: PC AND MAC VERSION (ZB 3.12) NOW AVAILABLE *****



I finally found some time to throw these mats I've been working on together and post them. I've worked over a period of several months on the realistic skin shader alone (starting back in ZBrush 2!) so I hope you all get good use out of them.

A. Realistic Skin (quad shader) - Below I'll post a few directions on how to use it. It's a bit tricky.
B. Another skin quad shader. A bit more subdued than the realistic one.
C. Basic Flesh Matcap material.
D. Verdi Gris Bronze
E. Antique Bronze
F. Bronze with highlights - there's a couple small light sources from the sides in the matcap texture to give a little more interest.
G. & H. Sculpting Material 1 & 2 - I made these to try to come up with some mats which are good while sculpting in realtime.
I. Rusted Iron - I tried to upgrade Jantim's mats to work well with ZBrush 3 and this is about as close as I got so far. I'm still working on it, but I think it's decent enough to upload.

Here's the links to the materials:

KRAKEN'S MATS SET1 - MAC

KRAKEN'S MATS SET1 - PC





And now for the explanation of the Realistic Skin quadshader. In the first image below I added a swatch of color showing the skin color I used. Obviously that can vary, but I find that color works pretty well.

Also, the shader is very sensitive to the light settings so I put these images together with some notes which should help you to use them.

[monstermaker]

Kracken ,These materials look great can't wait to play with them Thanks!

[maxinkuk]

Thanks Kraken, they look fab. I must try them immediately.

[sathe]

Hi Kraken, Amazing Display of matcaps, I have tried to load them however and am getting a material load error which causes zbrush to crash.

will update if i can fix it.

[Disco Stu]

anyone else having problems with starting zbrush when these are in the folder?

[maxinkuk]

Yes, I'm having the same error, I'm about to try with one at a time.

[Disco Stu]

hmm seems like none work for me.

maybe a corrupt upload?

me wants they look delicious

[Webhead]

The matcaps look great!

[Avan-AMS]

yup same here, "error loading material"

[spaceboy412]

i'm getting the error as well.
i opened one of the mats in a text editor and noticed it said zbrush 3.12, so i'm guessing that's the issue, i'm on a pc with 3.1.

[Disco Stu]

hmm yeah that could be it!

a mac intruder on my windows! will i get viruses?

[prosthetix]

thanks Kraken,
cant wait to play with them, finally pays to be non PC ....!!

[nickz]

Bummer...I'm on a PC and they will not load for me!! They look great by they way! Any way to convert these to PC?