*** ZBrush 3.5 Release 2 for Windows is now available

[sclptr]

Anyone up for doing a quick demo video on Zbrush 3.5 Geometry HD and then show how to extract a normal map from that HD sculpt.

[v_mulligan]

Just be aware, it looks identical to the first zip you downloaded but if you open it up you will see that it's the R2 version. Why they didn't rename the zip to reflect the newer content within I don't know. I'm sure there is a reason.....

The file sizes aren't identical. The R2 zip is about 80 kB smaller.

[RAMWolff]

I think I said "looks identical" didn't I?

[v_mulligan]

I think I said "looks identical" didn't I?

Fair enough .

Incidentally, let me add my voice to those thanking the folks at Pixologic for the new version of ZBrush, as well as for the second release.

[BlueAppleStudio]

(jealous and somewhat) Patient Mac user waiting to get his hands on 3.5 and ZSpheres II...

Has anyone looked into writing a script/plugin that would allow you to export the ZSphere armature as a bone setup, and also export the correlating overlying mesh with weighted influence based on those bones? This would be an enormous times saver and help link the sculpting and rigging process in a way that should be pretty intuitive.

[tokio]

Excellent. Pixologic thank you
now installed + update cool

[pixolpopper]

So when do we get our plugins working again? 3.5 is cool and all but I've become reliant on the plugins for workflow such as Decimation Master and thus can't do much in 3.5 outside of personal work. I would have figured with the extra month it took to release 3.5 just "right" with a patch shortly after that the plugins would work right away.

[yvan_c]

Downloaded and activated (again). Thanx Pixo!

[cookepuss]

So when do we get our plugins working again? 3.5 is cool and all but I've become reliant on the plugins for workflow such as Decimation Master and thus can't do much in 3.5 outside of personal work. I would have figured with the extra month it took to release 3.5 just "right" with a patch shortly after that the plugins would work right away.

It's even more perplexing than that. Knowing that 3.5 was coming along very soon, why release new plugins that would be unusable in a month or two? You'd have thought that some planning would have gone into it.

Even more than that, you might have figured that they would have been bundled. Plugins like Decimation Master, Subtool Master, Transpose Master, & Image Plane have become "must have" features that one would figure would make their way into the core app - or at least the core download package..

[Maxsunset]

It's even more perplexing than that. Knowing that 3.5 was coming along very soon, why release new plugins that would be unusable in a month or two? You'd have thought that some planning would have gone into it.

Even more than that, you might have figured that they would have been bundled. Plugins like Decimation Master, Subtool Master, Transpose Master, & Image Plane have become "must have" features that one would figure would make their way into the core app - or at least the core download package..

Yup.... I just realized that even older MASSIVELY USED plugins like ZMapper are nowhere to be found. Shouldn't this just be a part of ZB now? Can't Pixologic build ZB to be modular enough so that old plugins will work with newer versions of the software (a-la maya)? Does it seem that ZB gets totally re-written every time a new version comes out? Anyways, just rambling...

[bicc39]

As I wrote elsewhere.
Consider the new version as working perfectly( try ).
If you could not get the plugins reinstalled, would the
new version be worth it, as is?
Thank God, you get to keep the old version intact.
(To me.....)

[Drakelot]

Thanks Pixologic team ... just got the ZB 3.5 sr2 ... excellent. I'm running on Vista now.

[SkulptorGeist]

Hello

Try this.

1. Export the top level of your mesh as an obj
2. Import the original obj from the other app
3. Import the high rez obj on top of the obj from step 1
4. Do not remap
5. Then Rebuild Subdiv Levels and export

That should change the offset back.

Paul

Hi Paul,
I will try this out and let you know how it turns out. If this works, it ought to be in someone's tutorial!
All the best,
Oluf

[SpaceMan]

Thanks Pixologic team ... just got the ZB 3.5 sr2 ... excellent. I'm running on Vista now.

Drakelot is the ZB 3.5 sr2 a new version of ZB 3.5 r2 or a typo?

[Ares1979]

hi guyz for some reason i havnt yet recieved 3.5?
dont know why this is i paid a three hundred pounds for zbrush 3.1 and can see everyone else has 3.5 already!
is there any1 out there that dont have it too?