ShadowBox: adventures with intricate alphas...

[VISEone]

Wonderful pieces and in combination with those matcaps just brilliant! # 34 is my favorite!!!

[bio-designer]

LOL … that is such a cool character … I absolutely love it … great work! small_orange_diamond

I would say ‘thanks’ but i can’t as this model is not mine, it was used solely to illustrate MatCaps…

Wonderful pieces and in combination with those matcaps just brilliant! # 34 is my favorite!!!

Thats very nice of you to say, cheers…

Dragon : I’ve PM’d you with a link to those MatCaps

J

[Dragon]

Got em, thanks a million. Played with them a bit, but I suck at the time with setting up proper render settings. Watched on YouTube about LightCap setting etc. Will probably play some more with that this weekend. Oh, I also sent you another PM, did you receive it?

[Dragon]

Hi BD, real quick, I have sent you several PM’s. Hope your receiving them. Best.

[gabo1991]

Thanks for those kind words Dragon, really is much appreciated - I’ll do a tutorial next week when I have more time on my hands, which will cover ShadowBox and a few other things

Thanks Mealea, your so nice… A tutorial is coming, think i’ll do it in the style that you did yours in, i.e. just in this thread, maybe with the aid of images… Also if you want some of the finished ShadowBox ZTools to play with you know, thats no problem at all, i’ll stick them up on my server, they are unsubdivided, so are quite small

Here’s another render, this time using the virtual flloor, its the first time ive used this and im kind of unpleasantly surprised that Ambient Occlusion doesnt have any effect on it - hope this changes in future releases…

A larger version can be viewed by clicking the link below :

http://www.onepixeldeep.btinternet.co.uk/floor-render-test-1-lge.jpg

This is almost a straight ZBrush render apart from the DOF which was applied in Photoshop using DOF Pro in conjunction with the exported Depth Map

These are the thumbnails of the Matcaps that were used and I’ve included them in this post as a .zip download, they were created in Maxwell Studio and exported from ZBrush R4, so will also work in 4R2 and 4R2B

Matcap Set 1 - 2.4 MB (PC) (click link below)

http://www.onepixeldeep.btinternet.co.uk/matcaps_set1.zip

It would be nice to see if anybody uses them - I’ll also add to them on a regular basis

Again, thanks for the interest in this thread

Take Care

J

For the AO, make sure that the AO slider is turned up in the Material>Environment sub-palette if you are using ZBrush4R2b. If you are using ZBrush4R3 this slider will already be set at 100. Did you try the renders in ZBrushR3?

[system]

Looks really cool. I have not been able to get something this intricate out of shadowbox yet. Keep it up.

[carver]

Tutorial please…We are all getting antsy! Sharing is caring, that’s what my baby girl says.

[bio-designer]

Sorry for the delay in responding, real life intervened with the digital one…

For the AO, make sure that the AO slider is turned up in the Material>Environment sub-palette if you are using ZBrush4R2b. If you are using ZBrush4R3 this slider will already be set at 100. Did you try the renders in ZBrushR3?

Yeah - I mean, it simply doesn’t work, Ambient Occlusion DOES NOT affect the ‘floor’, in either R4, 4R2, 4R2B or R3 - try it yourself, create a sphere, activate the ‘floor’, turn off Shadows, turn ON Ambient Occlusion and do a BPR preview render, there is no Ambient Occlusion interaction between the sphere and the floor and there should be in my opinion and actually it can’t be that difficult to implement… It stands to reason that if Shadows affect the floor, then AO should too - or is it just me ?

Looks really cool. I have not been able to get something this intricate out of shadowbox yet. Keep it up.

Hi Javier, thanks very much indeed…

Tutorial please…We are all getting antsy! Sharing is caring, that’s what my baby girl says.

A tutorial is coming, I promise I will be sharing and caring - in a few days, more than likely at the weekend…

J

[bio-designer]

Hey There

Im going to release a couple or maybe three sets of MatCaps in the next couple of weeks - I want to post a few renders using a few of them before I post them for download…

They are based on BSDF (Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function) shaders and are designed to be photo-realistic… well, most of them are anyway

Some feedback on whether or not people might use them would be extremely helpful…

These were rendered using BPR Preview, Shadows turned off and Ambient Occlusion turned on…

J

[kilik128]

look good

[Webhead]

Looks like some really nice ones. I’d definitely use them. I have my own glossy green plastic, but I might like yours better than mine. I always say, you can never have too many matcaps!

[lazy_noob]

matcaps looks great

[RobotailorS]

I’d use them as well! they look good, I sometimes use Keyshot to create some matCaps, quick n good looking!

[skaale]

looks good!!

[SolidSnakexxx]

I so looking forward to this release of MatCaps

[Derek_Frenzo]

They look really good! Would love to try them!

[VISEone]

Lime green glossy plastic = want!!!

[bio-designer]

Wow !!, thats a positive reaction

Thanks for the comments, I’ll get them posted early next week

For VISEone, heres a larger preview of the ‘Lime Green Glossy Plastic’

I have another one similar to this but with IBL (Image Based Lighting) rather than Emitters, so it has some interesting colour variation

J

[VISEone]

It’s really a nice material - looks so damn realistic like toyvinyl…great!

[jBogh]

Those look awesomely real! Count me as someone that’s eager to try them!