Pixologic Announcement - The Roadmap to ZBrush 2.5

[Bas_Mazur]

and again Thumbs up for the pixologic team!!

[el-d]

excellent news…just so dissapointed that the last of the freebies pre z2.5 is the zmapper…can’t we shunt that one up to september
50 days and counting…and then more waiting for 2.5 …where’s that homer drool emoticon

hoping time flies for once

El-d

[Mr_micro26]

Cool , i wonder what else is going to be added.Cant wait

[MarioBlanco]

Thanks Pixologic Team for this NEWS!
Andreseloy

[Northstarr]

Wonderful news indeed! Something new to look forward to every month till December. Sort of like having Christmas spread out over a few months. I love it!

[joebount]

1 word : Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot !

[boozy_floozie]

Greatly looking forward to it, thanks for the e.t.a dates

One itchy titchy thing… could you purleeeez get rid of the freezing and crashes when scrolling the canvas on the Mac version?

[SERcan]

Fantastic news, félicitations à toute l’équipe pixologic :))

[Sebcesoir]

One super feature, in addition of the retopology tool, would be to be able to transfere the details of the old object on the new topolgy-ed object!!

[Giantsun]

Yeah! That and a “make it look cool” button…

[pete330]

>>“make it look cool” button…

hey ain’t that every button in zbrush?

[acmepixel]

Welcome to Pixologic’s roadmap to ZBrush 2.5

Today we are excited to announce the release dates of our upcoming ZBrush plug-ins and the much anticipated release of ZBrush 2.5. Each plug-in is intended to give ZBrush 2 users an advanced look into ZBrush 2.5 and its robust feature enhancements.

Our first release will be a Demo version of ZBrush 2 on September 8th. It will be released simultaneously on the Mac and Windows platform. To learn more about ZBrush 2 and its features click here.

Our next release will be the Displacement Exporter on September 22nd. The Displacement Exporter plug-in includes the ability to export 8bit, 16 bit and 32 bit grey-scale or rgb maps among many other innovative features.

ZApp Link, which you can see in actionhere, will be released on October 6th. ZApp Link connects ZBrush to any graphics editing program that edits .PSDs. Combining the power of ZBrush with your graphics editing package of choice gives you even more power when texturing or designing within ZBrush.

ZMapper, the normal map generator plug-in, will be released on October 20th. This blazingly fast plug-in expands upon ZBrush’s robust normal map generating ability by including extensive configurability, normal map presets, the pioneering morphUV function, the ability to roll a bump map into your normal map and several other innovative features that are designed to make normal map generation simple, fast and direct.

Click here to download the higher-rez version

We anticipate the release of ZBrush 2.5 by December 2005 or earlier. [font=Wingdings][font=Wingdings] ZBrush 2.5 is currently still under development. We are adding even more features and enhancements to this release that have not been previously disclosed. More information about these new features will be posted here as they become available.

ZBrush 2.5 update and the above plug-ins will be -free of charge- to registered users of ZBrush 2.

ZBrush 2.5’s announced features include ZSphere enhanced Topology tools, our volumetric Model-Rig, and a stratospheric increase in the Poly Count of ZBrush models. These ground-breaking features can be seen here or in our Siggraph recap here. Stay tuned to this thread for information about additional features that will be part of ZBrush 2.5.

Thank you for all your encouragement, patience and support.

The Pixologic Team

Can anybody see any images in this post? If so what browser are you using? (Safari, Firefox, Netscape, and MSIE show broken image links for me).

[Northstarr]

Nope, got the dreaded red X in a box here, and I am using IE.

[aurick]

We have identified and corrected the problem that was preventing the images from displaying for some users. If you still can’t see them, please refresh the page. If you still can’t see them for some reason, contact support@pixologic.com and include information about the particular browser (name and version number) that you’re running.

[Moochie]

Great news. Should get ZB some cool column inches in the cgi press over the next few months too. Now I’d better get on and learn how all the 2.0 tools work before more toys arrive.

[Frenchy_Pilou]

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[Max_the_Artist]

Excellent news!! and i have to say the new features looks just stunningly amazing. Keep up the great work Zbrush developer team!

I hope these new features will help alot when moving displacement/normalmap and textures from Zbrush into other programs.

/ Max

[Washington]

Driving with ZCar on the RoadMap to ZBrusah 2.5

[Buckie]

What’s all the fuss about, it’s just a bit of software…

HAPPY FECKIN’ XMAS EVERYONE!!!

[abxy]

I know this isn’t the feature request thread, but the thought just came to me.

Since there is now smooth shading in zb for low poly models (I swore I saw it in the siggraph recap vid) and you can also see the normal map applied to the model in zbrush to see how it looks on your model before the export, wouldn’t it also be a nice feature to paint a texture on your low poly model in zb while the normal map shading is applied?

So that way, you’re texturing your low poly model while being able to look at how your texture looks in combination with the normal map at the same time.

I hope that makes sense.