Hey guys it’s been awhile. I am glad to see so many new members joining us here at ZBC! I have been bored stiff with a project at work (tedious camera tracking job) and finally had the chance to have some real fun with Zbrush! I have been thinking about the new displacement feature that should be available in 1.6, and also about Terragen lately and presto change oh here’s what I came up with.
This is a hybrid image that was created by first making a grey scale image in Zb with an image size of 257X257. I then exported it out saved it as a .raw file imported it into Terragen setup the attributes I wanted. Rendered it at 1280X920 saved and then imported back to ZB where the lava lighting and other effects were added. I thought of putting some smoke with the fire, but it just did not look to great. I can’t wait for the displacement feature even more now, because it would nice to be able to use the Zdepth of the displaced image. 121 welcome 
Awesome!! 
The fire effects are amazing!! :eek:
It looks really awesome, i wish i knew how to achieve that ‘painted’ look in my own images.
extremly nice lava scene. I bookmarked this thread to remember how you did it…I have terragen but dont use it often. Looks like you did something that seems unique to me…Always a pleasure to see hybrid images making great use of other tools to compliment zbrush… 
Thank you guys for the kind remarks! This image is smaller than what I am used to working with, but I think you guys got the fealing for it.
Hey Nukage by “painted” do you mean the lava effect? 
It’s Mercure !
Pilou