Forgive me, but I’m likely to come off a bit ‘grumpy’ in this.
I’ve owned ZB for a while, but haven’t used it much. I decided to try to use it in conjunction with Max and FR. Obviously GoZ, which will solve all the worlds problems, has not been announced for Max, so who knows when or IF it will ever happen…that’s not the problem.
The problem is that apparently ZBrush, and the workflow between Zbrush, has changed so rapidly that I can’t find any videos that actually show the things that are on my screen in ZB.
Oh! Here’s one…wait, it says using ZMapper…no longer applicable.
Hey! Here I see…nah…that’s talking about v2 of the displacement
Here’s one…nope, that’s talking about something else I don’t have.
I’ve found one that seemed close in these forums, but it’s telling me to click on buttons in the Alpha menu, and I don’t have those buttons.
It seems like either ZB, Max, or both are changing so quickly that I’ll never actually find a tutorial that is current (Max 2010, ZB3.5R2), or am I just missing the obvious? It’s almost enough to drive me to Mudbox (ALMOST).
So I try things, and get horribly distended meshes, and now I’m worried that the two-day-old R2 of 3.5 has made other changes, and no tutorials will match my screens. I’ve got about $200 worth of books that all tell me to use utilities/scripts that no longer exist in ZB.
This is the Grand Origin of the Grumpiness…any links to a tutorial where the buttons match my own?
But then the plug-ins/ scripts don’t work for anyone now. Apparently they will all be rewritten for 3.5r2, though so…
