[attach=87566]Svengali ZB3 plugin ZMatsplus31.jpg[/attach]
ZMATS+31 is not an upgrade but has simply been made compatible with ZBrush 3.1
ZMATS+31 is a handy manager for ZBrush Materials.
The ZMATS31.ZIP file contains all the necessary files.
NOTE: When I posted the original ZMATS, some people mistakenly thought I was posting a library of materials. NO. The ZMATS+31 plugin simply provide you with a tool for MANAGING your own materials. You have to create or load your own library. There are several existing libraries that you can download and convert for use in ZMATS+31. Read about these options in the original ZMATS thread >> HERE << . Be sure to checkout the handy filename conversion utility generously posted by Marcus_Civis in that same thread.
ZMATS+31 FUNCTIONALITY
Multiple Bank Storage: There are five BANK buttons (A,B,C,D and E) and each bank can store four hundred materials. Total material storage for ZMATS+31 is 2,000 different materials.
Each material being stored is applied to a sphere and Best Rendered. (The spheres are branded with a depressed “Z” to better display some characteristics of the stored material.)
The Undo button lets you recover a previous material if you accidentally load a new material before saving the old. The Undo operation is one level only.
The Help button provides a complete explanation of ZMATS+31 button functionality.
The Find button brings up a window displaying a block of forty materials at a time. Ten page blocks of materials can be veiwed sequentially using the arrow keys. You can also jump directly to any one of the ten blocks by pressing one of the ten block buttons. At anytime you may click on a specific material thumbnail, which immediately loads that material. The five slot windows are updated so that the loaded material is displayed in the center slot.
The Best button will apply a best render to your model for three seconds since some materials characteristics are only seen in best render mode. After three seconds, a preview render is reapplied to your model.
INSTALLING ZMATS+31
Just unzip the contents of the Zmats31.zip file into the ZPlugs directory.
Next time you start ZBrush 3.1 you will find a new button, the ZMats+31 button, in the Zplugin palette in the Svengali submenu. This button can be Control-dragged onto one of the shelves on your interface and made a permanent part of your startup UICustom.cfg file by pressing Control+Shift+I. Now, anytime you need to load or save a material just press the ZMats+31 button.
PREVIOUS USERS OF ZMATS PLUS
If you were already using the ZMats Plus plugin with ZBrush 2, you can continue to use your collection of materials by copying the contents of the Bank (A,B,C,D and E) Folders into Bank folders in the ZPlugs\Zmats31 directory.
ZMATS31 FOLDER AND SUBFOLDER CONTENTS
The installed version of ZMATS+31 Plugin should look like this:
ZStartup\Zplugs subdirectory will contain:
Zmats31Launcher.zsc
Zmats31 subdirectory
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats31 subdirectorywill contain:
EMPTY.jpg
left1.jpg
left5.jpg
leftEnd.jpg
light2.jpg
matexample.psd
right1.jpg
right5.jpg
rightEnd.jpg
templights.ZLI
TempMats.ZMT
undo.ZMT
UnDoA.ZMT
UnDoB.ZMT
Zmats3.jpg
ZMATS31 - ReadMe.txt
Zmats31.zsc
ZmatsPlusThumb.psd
ztool.ZTL
bankA subdirectory
bankB subdirectory
bankC subdirectory
bankD subdirectory
bankE subdirectory
Lights subdirectory
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats31\bankA subdirectory will contain:
BankA folder.txt
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats31\bankB subdirectory will contain:
BankB folder.txt
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats31\bankC subdirectory will contain:
BankC folder.txt
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats31\bankD subdirectory will contain:
BankD folder.txt
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats1\bankE subdirectory will contain:
BankE folder.txt
ZStartup\Zplugs\Zmats31\Lights subdirectory will contain:
LightBank folder.txt[/COLOR]