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#284

someone once said that taking a picture is like shooting a gun, you just point and click. or was that the other way around? either way, it’s not rocket science :slight_smile:

regardless of whether or not they’re pulling them off of google images or whatever (it honestly doesn’t matter… people do that without a fancy leech-google button), it doesn’t change the fact that slapping a photo onto a mesh is still a bad practice for texturing. Sure, that turtle looked cool, but change the lighting conditions and suddenly it looks CG and bad. Why? Because it has specularity where there is no specularity, and shadows where light is clearly shining. This method of texturing is pretty outdated, even for video games… though with the advent of lightbox we’re bound to see hundreds of goblin and alien heads with pre-baked lighting. hooray!

lightbox is a gimmick… as noted by the incredibly cheesy taglines peppered throughout the video. How exactly is zbrush going to revolutionize something that bodypaint has been doing for nigh on 8 years now? maybe in another few years we’ll get a video promising to change our worlds with the brand new ZLayers for textures! on that note- applying textures has never really been a problem, having control over them while you create them is key. Which is why if there is no layered painting in Z4 I will be sorely disappointed. Lightbox is the type of feature that is obviously geared toward the casual “no clue what they’re doing” alien and zombie crowd, and not professionals imo.

#285

didn’t you say this before?

its obvious to me light-box is also file browser so i can easily get to all my HD images on my PC that I have got from all corners of the internet.

not to mention to unlimited amount of p…err…human anatomy texture reference images available at my disposal for quick conceptualizing

in addition Blender has multi-vertex color sets, so I dont see why ZB couldn’t as well

#286

Lets not jump to the conclusion guys. Let it come out first. But I still think lightbox would be invaluable tool for concept artists or illustrators who only have to care about art and not get into the technical things that wastes time…just the thing zbrush is all about - removing the technical aspects of things n making it more artist friendly!
I think you should take it as a positive thing as pixologic is bringing about significant improvements with every release. Obviously, they cant put every feature into it at once, it takes time, but im pretty sure they would eventually as they keep improving.

#287

OMG!! I want it now!!! Gimme gimme!!

#288

How about they work on the Mac Trial version instead of dangling the “Coming soon” for years. As far as helping young artists conceptualize and create artwork they need to learn (not sure if they focus on this in art schools anymore) first and foremost that you can’t just take art without permission. It’s STEALING!!! Just because it’s really easy to do does not make it right. Here at my work we have to show corporate where every image came from so we try to buy royalty free photos whenever possible. You can’t use music in videos without paying the artist so why do people think it’s ok with photos?

“concept artists or illustrators who only have to care about art and not get into the technical things that wastes time”

Technical things, like copyright laws? Concept artist or Illustrators are going to get sued if they don’t learn these things. You can lose your job over it, believe me. Plus, you might end up pissing off a client when they fall in love with an image and then you have to come back and say they can’t really use it because you don’t own it and you just pulled it off the web.

#289

By technical, I mean technical complications involved in 3D modeling and texturing, i.e. mesh topology, polygon count, uvw unwrapping, texture layers, etc.

I didnt say LEGAL complications. And, can you show me, where is exactly Pixologic telling people to starting steal others’ work? Lightbox is just a way to browse images quickly online (or maybe offline too?). So, the source to browse images is upto the user. Pixologic can’t stop someone from stealing image! If they didn’t have lightbox, using a web browser isn’t that hard is it?

#290

What is amazing is that it is a free upgrade…makes a change to see loyalty being rewarded by a firm. Other firms take note.
Thank you:D:D

#291

Right, and BitTorrent, Limewire, etc. don’t “legally” promote stealing software, movies, etc. They just provide the means to the end. And the people who sell bongs tell everyone they’re for “legal tobacco use only”. Come on. This will only force photographers to watermark more of their images or not post them at all.

#292

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#293

nevermind

#294

seconded

#295

haha caffeineandpixels dude, your being super paranoid. I wouldn’t be surprised if you would say next something like knife stores don’t “legally” promote murderers to use their knives to kill people, they just provide the means to the end(killing) and so selling knifes should be frowned upon :lol:

Pixologic is just trying to make it easier for artists to find images with that tool. Even if they didn’t provide this feature, “thieves” would still have continued to use google images anyway (like they always do, and for that matter you should actually go after the main source, google, saying that their search tool facilitates stealing pictures :D). Pixologic has just shown the possibilities that lie within the tool and instead of thinking about how wonderfully it might help you in some way, you start thinking about how it could be abused? Its hard to find an innovation that can’t be abused in some way anyway. Every coin has two sides, its up to you to relate to any one of them.

#296

bravo I concur …ZBrush is a tool of the most amazing order …I’d be more surprised the new features being used for photo manipulations of weirdest order :eek:

…and we all know what happened when Two-face flipped the coin

#297

thats really amazing ! again pixologic with some creative unique features !

#298

omg this is probably the most useful thing since the discovery of the yo-yo!

#299

Incredible! Who needs any other programs!!?? And this is free?? (for registered users of course)

#300

Oh you’d be surprised how many I need. :wink:

#301

:lol: yes me too, but the way ZBrush is heading, we’ll soon won’t need anything else…

#302

this is what i called WHATTTTTTTTT?? amazing

#303

Hope you’re right about that, I rather just use one application for textures and viewing ALL my texture maps.