Does anyone know how i would approach adding droplets/condensation to a bottle in zbrush? I understand this is normally done in other 3D programs like Cinema 4D. Just wondered if this is achievable in Zbrush? and how you would go about it?
I have attached an image of the droplets i want to create.
Yeah, normally 
Was doing that in 3ds max, and believe me it’s much longer process than in Zbrush (modeling few droplets, setting up and rendering Zdepth…)
Main goal was to make displacement or bump map so you can use it for lather rendering
Anyway, Zbrush is “born” for that kind of jobs.
Really many ways to achieve that so just basic one, all DIY:
Initialize qgrid, set resolutions on 100 and just model droplets (sorry, sculpt droplets:D)
You can use any of simple alphas already in zbrush, but dont need them.
Just sculpt everything on low res. level so smooth subdiv. will do all the rest.
Here is sample made in 2 min, just standard, and smooth brush (added reflect mat for some preview effect) :
So something like this to make displ. map (alpha) just go to alpha -> grab doc (plane must cover whole canvas)
Depending what you want, you can sculpt on bottle, make tillable alpha, make alpha that will cover whole bottle…
Thanks for the quick reply. Great idea. I also thought to create droplet IMM brushes. But came across this brush set by Michael Dunnam for $10. Would just need to keep the droplets as low poly as possible, as there will be hundreds of these little droplets I will need to keep polycount down.
i think this is the way…using insert brush
As mentioned, there are lots of ways to do it. You could use a water drops alpha with RGB turned on to drag out the drops, then polygroup by colour and splte the water drops polygroup to a separate subtool.
Joseph gives a good way to do this in the Summit top tips presentation (starting at 42 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY2xZwwoMeI