Bought ZBrush a few moths ago (Which is fantastic by the way) and have used it a lot without having anything to show for it. I’ve been trying to get to grips with Markers with a view to creating 3d objects for export into Poser, Bryce & other 3d apps. This sword is the modest result of hours of learning the program, experimenting and swearing a lot. The skull is imported from Poser and the Sun decorations are Alphas converted to 3D tools. I shall post this Sword on my site in the next day or two as a freebie download. I’m still trying to get the file size down by lowering the poly count of the decorative suns without having to lose them or use something else.
My site address;
http://www.tim.winfield.btinternet.co.uk/
It will be in Wavefront format. I may include a texture map but I haven’t found out how to preserve material properties in ZBrush’s export function, so all you’re getting are the base colours. In Bryce, you can ungroup the different parts of the sword to edit it’s properties although I’ve had some strange results up to now. I’m pretty sure you can’t ungroup an imported object in ZBrush… please tell me if I’m wrong, but it seems to import fine back into ZBrush… it’s just that as far as I know, you can only assign one material to the whole sword which looks a bit pants.
Cheers,
Tim
