Just wanted to share this work with you guys, this is my first sculpt I ever done using Zbrush. I started this model in Zbrush 3.12 while learning how to use the software at the same time. I have been working on it whenever I had the time and in between video tutorials. It has been in my computer for a while now and so thought it was about time to show it up. Hope you’ll like it!! (^.^)
Ah, was this what you had in mind when discussing displacement maps?
Really like how much fine detail you got in the sculpt! Looks great! 
Hey LMMagnusson,
Yes indeed it is exactly what I had in mind, actually I am really having a hard time trying to apply my displacement map in Maxwell. I just don’t get it.
anyway thanks for your help though. I guess I’ll just stick with my no-brainer workflow between Zbrush and Maxwell. but still hope I’ll get to figure that out at some point. Beside thanks for the “recalculate” button for smoothing the model, I totally missed that out as well. although right now it’s not really helpful in my current workflow since it’s just washing out my details, but I’m sure that’ll be very useful in a near future. so thanks again.
Great piece of work
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Ok, wow! The texture detail on that render! If I’d seen that in a Puma ad I would have thought it was a photo!
(and it’s probably better to do displacement experiments with a much simpler model, just to get a feeling for it first)
Hey,
glad you like it, beside you are right it’s much better to do displacement experiments with a much simpler model, that’s why when I render this one I just threw the high resolution mesh right in Maxwell and finger crossed it worked, and actually I was expecting Maxwell to become very sluggish but somehow it didn’t flinch. So when I saw the render of your “ClawSnake” I thought maybe I could get the same render with displacement maps, and as you know so far not successful. (>.<) so as you say, I will take a day to just use planes or squares and keep on testing out with different map setting until I get something I am Happy with. I’ll let you know if I found the golden settings to display maps in Maxwell.^^