How do people make these awesome, jaw dropping renders with Zbrush? Everything seems to be broken to me. Is it because Im on a mac?
1- I cant create a movie format that is usable
2- I get rendering artifacts constantly. Individual stills are fine, but when I try to make a turntable with turntable plus I get weird pixels that jump as if Zbrush just cant handle rendering high poly detail.
3- super sample causes white aliased pixels to appear around my model. This is completely broken.
4- Turntable plus seems to snap my models to an axis only “it” can see, causing my model to spin in weird ways no matter what I do, I cannot fix this.
5- There seems to be “invisible” info stored in models that Zbrush is unable to edit effectively. Namely pivots and world space. transpose rotate pretends to add a pivot point to the model but doesn’t actually. You might say “but Zbrush is 2.5d, it doesn’t use those”. You R wrong it sure does, and it will mess up, and you will have to go through a crazy long set of steps to fix it and still will lose some of your work.
6- Goz doesn’t work at-all. pixologic had no solutions for me.
7- it is damned near impossible to get usable maps out of Zbrush. This combined with not being able to get Goz to work, npt being able to export usable movie formats, and turntable plus being broken, effectively makes Zbrush useless in a pipeline. It seems the only way to get stuff out of Zbrush to another app is through hours of (at times mind bogglingly silly) work that really should be a click of a button.
8- Can’t effectively manipulate mesh flow. I feel that a poly sculpting program should have mesh editing tools like Maya, so I dont have to go back to Maya to do simple cuts and w/e.
9- cant patch holes well. Sure I know there is a crazy long drawn out way to append a hole. But for a sculpting program why is this so hard? I know, again it is 2.5d, but still I would think it would have some sort of append to polygon tool. This one has made me start over a few times when Ive found that overlooked missing face.
10- I erased number 10 because I solved it. It was my own stupid mistake.
I hope Zbrush 4 fixes some of these. I know understand why Zbrush has free upgrades. It’s cause it’s and unfinished program full of bugs!