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Batch cavity map creation?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hey Everyone

I’m trying to find a way to batch render cavity maps on a character with multiple shader and shell?

I need this because I have a lot of characters in the scene all as one tool, no subtools. I know, “NO SUBTOOLS?” but there is a reason for that.

Right now I’m having to isolate an object then “DelHidden”, render the map, then undo? which seems a long way to do it.

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#2

There’s no batch option, but there is an easier way.


  1. Press Tool>Polygroups>Uv Groups to split your model based on the UV regions.
  2. Press Tool>SubTool>GrpSplit to break the model into separate parts for each map.
  3. Select the subtools one at a time and use ZMapper to create the cavity map.
This approach is quite a bit faster and easier than hiding and deleting points. :slight_smile:

#3

yeah that does take out like five steps cheers man

#4

Is it possible to wrtie a script to tell zbrush to bake each subtool one by one?
If so can you point me in the direction to learn how?

#5

Probably not. The reason being that ZScripts can’t run other ZScripts or plugins. So you could automate quite a bit of the process, but you’d still need to manually run ZMapper.