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Help with tiling alpha

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#1

Hi,

I am trying to uniformly tile an alpha over the surface of my sculpt. I basically want the character to have a chainmail bodysuit. I’ve masked off the necessary portions, but I can’t get the alpha to tile evenly across the entire sculpt. I tried using the alpha with DragRect on, but it is almost impossible to get it tiled seamlessly, and there is a lot of stretching (which I obviously don’t want).
Can someone please tell me the best way to achieve my desired effect?

Any help is MUCH appreciated!

#2

Add the Alpha to Noisemaker and have it use the UVs of the mesh.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?161159-ZBrush-4R2-Betatesting-By-Geert-Melis

#3

Thanks for this. It applies the alpha evenly, but I am still getting the problem with the stretching. I have my UVs unwrapped, but the Noisemaker seems to be ignoring the UVs and simply projecting the tiled alpha along the z axis.

To clarify, these are the steps I took (please tell me if I am missing a step or something):
-GoZ to Maya
-Cut borders
-GoZ back to Zbrush
-UVUnwrap plugin (with “use existing seams selected”)
-Flatten and adjust UVs on a clone
-Copy UVs from clone to original
-Open Noisemaker
-Hit the little circle in the bottom corner and load alpha

I tried it on other models as well to see if it was a problem with my soldier sculpt, but the same thing happened with the rest. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

#4

Scratch that. I didn’t trun on UV mode in the Noisemaker. Thanks for the help!