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#1

Dear All,

I have a question for Zbrush and Lightwave:


  • is there a direct scripts that can help me makes better exports or out pots for the displacement or normal maps? because I am always having problems in getting good results!


  • where can look for them?


  • I am currently using a Mac… so will the scripts work on it ok?
thanks for the support
khalid

#2

Ho!! still No support…is anyone there for support for my Qs!!!

#3

I know very little about Zscripts, but can you tell me what kind of problems you have with displacement and normalmaps in LW?

#4

Hi there,
well…I am not sure how to explain the issue but I will try.

if I was working on one object in ZB and exported the displacement for it it will appear with a look that is workable but might need some adjustments, so I will go back and fix some miner areas, the next export to displacement might totally change in depth in comparison with the original one!!! Why? and how to fix that issue?
I was not so sure on the quality I am getting from this procedure and In all the plugins PDFs for the Displacement exporter for ZB the document talks about ready sets for Max Maya XsI but no Lightwave, but they advise you to go onto Zbrush central and ask users for ready made scripts…So I was hoping to get some scripts from users or even support from Pixologic for there product to be used into the other platforms like Lightwave…

so again I am just hoping to get better info or support that will include the Lightwave community into the other communities that would like to use Zbrush, I would like to be able to include ZB in everything I do…

thanks again for the support.
khalid

#5

Yeah, I agree it is too bad that Pixologic hasn’t made a comprehensive pipeline for LW yet. Are you familiar with the tutorials of Steve Warner?

http://www.stevewarner.com/html/tutorials.html

I used these tut’s to some nice results, but there are still problem-area’s that I can’t quite figure out. And have you seen the LW9 demomovie about Displacement with Zbrush?

http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/lw9_demos.php

There is also a big PDF-file on this site:

http://www.macchiavello.com/

Hope this helps a bit. We Wavers could do with an official guideline for Zbrush-LW integration…

#6

Hi khalid,

I think you might get a better response to your questions if you post in the general Questions & Troubleshooting Forum and give the title of your thread as ‘Lightwave displacement problems’ or something similar.

There aren’t any specific zscripts for working with Lightwave that I know of and I would expect your problems to be solved without the need for a script. What you do need is help from someone who works with Lightwave, and I regret I can’t help you there.

#7

thank you marcus_civis for your support,
well I did do that too

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=34932

but have not gotten a responce from anyone yet…

I find it is a bit too slow and I really wish that we could get this support comes from the Zbrush developers since their product is a great software for 3D Artists…

I wish they would fix this issue once and for all and have a tutorial for every software tested and proven, Like a Maya one or a max or even a LW, maybe they should even declare which softwares it does not work properly with once and for all… so the end user / customer knows what he is getting into before he commits, also if there was a more helpful forum’s or websites where we could try to talk directly to the people who can help because the ZB forum takes a lot of time with no final response.