Rendering ZBrush Normal Maps in Carrara Tutorial

system · July 4, 2019, 6:37pm

Hello, I’ve lurked around here for quite some time now but never posted.

Anyway, I’ve had a few problems getting ZBrush normal maps to work in Carrara. I searched around but couldn’t find any step by step tutorials on this. After much mucking about I finally got it working and thought I’d share. As Carrara doesn’t support normal maps I used Inagoni’s Baker plugin.

I posted this over at Polyloop.net and someone suggested putting it up here. So, here’s a basic tutorial on how to get ZBrush normal maps into Carrara. I hope it is of use.

There may be better ways of doing this, so please feel free to comment.

Regards
Tony

Attachments

Zbrush Normal Maps in Carrara.pdf (284 KB)

Dondemaker · July 3, 2019, 4:08pm

Ash,
Welcome to the forum and many thanks for the tutorial. Hopefully it will prove useful - you use the same programs as I do although I need to upgrade Carrara (and learn it a lot better).

system · July 3, 2019, 4:09pm

Thanks Dondemaker. I’m a hobbyist who learns a lot from forums. It’s nice to be able to give something back.

Regards
Tony

bicc39 · July 3, 2019, 4:09pm

Many thanks, have Carrara, but have never tried importing

normal maps.

sirquadalot · July 3, 2019, 4:11pm

Thank you kindly! Well done tutorial! Have not had the time to play with C6 very much… , but I must give this a go.