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#1

Hi all,
Just thought I’d pop in and say hi and introduce myself.
I’m anxious to learn the ins and outs of Z Brush and hopefully be of some help to others who may have questions about other apps that I use.
( mostly Bryce,Poser,PhotoShop,amorphium,among other 2D and 3D applications.

I’m cureently a Site Administrator at the 3DCommune www.3dcommune.com and have been involved with this type of work for a few years now.

I’m looking forward to meeting you all and as I mentioned,adding Zbrush to my toolbox of CG apps.

It looks like quite a nice program and reaches far and wide in it’s possabilities.

See you round.
maybe even at the Commune

Hawkfyr (Tom)

#2

Please allow me to introduce myself? I think Mick Jagger said that :smiley:
Welcome …I’m new as well and use bryce and poser but this Zbrush WOW! Totally different I love it! Just wanted to say hi.

#3

lol
perhaps I was just hoping for some “Sympathy for the devil in my post”.
Nice to meet you Lori from a Die hard Brycer.

I’m hoping to experiment with using Zbrush to create some new and exciting textures to use in Bryce.
ant suggestions?
Hawkfyr

#4

Hi and welcome!
Personally, I’ve used Bryce, Poser, 3D Studio, and Maya, and I’ve removed them all from my computer. I did this because anything I want to do, I can do better in ZBrush. as far as making textures to use in Bryce, to each his own, but, why bother? Use the texture in ZBrush.
Once again, welcome, and my advice would be to check out past postings, checkout the quicklinks, and party on! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

#5

Thanks Stonecutter,
Why bother?
We tend to share many of our creations(models,textures,etc.

And I’m not sure about the export features of Z Brush yet,(do they export .obj,.3ds,etc?) but it’s nice when offering up a model for Bryce etc. to have the textures applied.
for instance , if I’m offering up a new model for download, the textures would be applied and ready to go for the recipient and good to go. or an assortment of textures.

Like I said,I’m totally new and I’ll certainly take your advice about researching the archives for more about Z Brush’s capabilities.
This was more of a Hi,I’m here post.

And thank your for your reply.
Hawkfyr

#6

Hi Tom,

Glad to see you in the forum. If you want help just ask, (and looking at your armoury I would suspect that you only need a week or two of pointers to learn the basics in ZB). Of all the forum communities I have ever belonged to this one is the most helpful - bar none!.

The fact that Pixologic people post here every day shows their commitment to their product hence the passion that you may encounter! a la Stonecutter :slight_smile:

Need a tip/hand/advice or a crit, this is the place.

Glen

#7

Thank you for the warm welcome Glen,
I just happend upon your Bryce image in the Z Brush forum and posted a link to it from my site in the Bryce forum(hope you don’t mind)

Looks like a fine bunch here and we too at the 3DCommune work very hard to provide a pleasant place for artists to interact,learn,share ideas and provide assistance in any way we can.

On September 1st we celebrated making out 10,000 member mark in just under a year.needless to say we are extreamly proud of that.
Perhaps if you get the chance you could visit the 3dCommune http://www.3dcommune.com
and check us out.
Our administrative staff have been watching this app closely and are considering adding a ZBrush fourm to our list of application specific forums there.

My Online identity is cosistant throughout the net and I’m not hard to find.

Incidentally,If your a Brycer, you’ll find,although we cater to all CG apps,we have an extreamly strong and passionate Bryce community there.

hope to see you there and again ,
thanks for the warm welcome.
it’s refreashing to find new communities that are as passionate and dedicated to their sites as we are of ours.
Hawkfyr

#8

Hello Hawkfyr,

I too partake of Bryce, fun stuff.

I came to ZBrush with the intention of using it as a modeler for other apps - but from nearly day, I’ve never gone back.

You’ll see here, ZB has “Stole many a man’s soul and faith” (Woo Woo)

jd

#9

Welcome, Hawkfyr! It’s ironic seeing you here, since I just joined 3DCommune about a week ago. It would be wonderful to see a ZBrush gallery added on over there! It looks like a very good site/community, with some nice differences from Renderosity.

Ditto what everyone else has already said: This is probably the most helpful forum that I’ve ever encountered, with definitely the most helpful company backing it. I’m really not sure which I love more; the program, or the people at ZBCentral.

To answer your question about ZBrush’s export features, it’s dynamite for making textures and alphas for use in other programs (like Bryce and Poser). It is also great for making Poser morph targets. Finally, it can export meshes in either OBJ or DFX format, and thanks to the incredible ease by which you can model in it, I’ve now got a 100% Bryce friend who keeps asking me to model various objects to export for his use in that app.

Anyway, welcome!

#10

Welcome Hawkfyr!
I look forward to seeing what you do with ZBrush! :slight_smile:

#11

Nice to see you here Hawkfyr, I have been a member of 3DCommune for awhile now, great bunch of people and Art.

#12

Hello Everyone!

I’m new here too, and thought I’d Jump in on Hawkfyrs thread to introduce myself.
I also use Bryce, and Poser (Mainly to import things into Bryce…LOL)
I have just recently downloaded the Demo of ZBrush, and soon will be purchasing the Full version …soon I promise. :wink:
Hello Auric! I’ll see what I can do about that ZBrush Gallery…I agree, we need one at 3D Commune!

#13

Hello, Hawkfyr, and welcome.

In response to your question
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I’m hoping to experiment with using ZBrush to create some new and exciting textures to use in Bryce.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

… well, that’s going to take a while to answer. You’ll find lots of texturing helpers in ZBrush, if that’s your only objective. Here are just a few:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>The MRGBZ Grabber Tool, in the Tool Palette, grabs some or all of your canvas and adds your image to the Texture Palette, and a depth-map (or bump-map, if you will) to your Alpha Palette.

<LI>Tilde-scrolling: hold the Tilde key and click-drag your canvas around; this scrolls your canvas so you can easily paint seamless textures. Do this numerically using sliders in the Layer:Modifiers sub-palette.

<LI>Convert from vertex-colors to pixels. Take a 3D object, enter Edit Mode (Transform Palette), press the “Fill Color” button in the Color Palette, and you can paint directly on your 3D object. After that, you can press the Colors -> Texture button in Tool:Modifiers:Texture and get a new Texture representing the UV-coordinate map of what you painted.
[/list]

There’s more, of course, but I’ll let you digest the above and learn more through experimenting, following tutorials, asking questions here at ZBC, and having lots of fun.

Cheers,
dave

#14

Thakds dave, I’ve Copy/pasted that in my tutorials folder and will try to get my head around it.

Now… I finally got the Demo password thing worked out but am I correct in assuming that the export feature is diabled with the Demo?

Thanks again for being so helpfull
Hawkfyr

#15

HI tom and welcome,I hope you enjoy Z Brush,Any questions e mail me [email protected] Gallerys.
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#16

Thanks Rembrant,
All of you BTW can help all of us at the Commune with ZBrush related QnA.
We created the Forum and Gallery for just that reason. so feel free to go there and post images ,give tips, we also have a tutorial section that you can post tuts or links to tuts.

We need experienced users as yourselves to help us get it off the ground.

after you log in , got to the Discussion fourm link on the sidebar and it will take you to the main forum index directory,
You’ll have to scroll down to see the ZBrush forum(because they are listed alphabetically…lol)

But ,check it out and introduce yourselves ,relax and post some images.
(post images in the galeries too.)

But I’ll be sure to call upon you Rembrant if I need some help.(or shold I say “When” I need some help…lol)

I’m quite happy with the response we have recieved here BTW.
You all seem like a great bunch .
Thanks again
Hawkfyr3DCommune