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LayerPaint – new plugin

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#21

This looks very promising! I’ll give it a try in in my next project and will post feedback here.

Thanks a lot for uploading and making it available to us! :+1:

Cheers!

#22

Hey all, I’m new to the forums and fairly new to zBrush :wink:

Nice work EddyLoonstijn , This is a great Plug-In, really helps a lot when your painting, thanks :) I think for some users the lack of understanding of how to use it is confusing them, and due to having to click the play, cancel and no dialogues some find it a little hard to know what is going on. Just to add the Workflow I follow for you guys that may be confused. I load my model/Tool and go into the Edit Mode, so the model is completely blank at this stage and ready for painting. I then create a new paint layer using the plug in from the zplug menu, clicking cancel and no to the dialogue box's as instructed. This is like having a blank photoshop canvas. I then do some poly painting onto the model, when I am happy with it and it is time to save this layer I then save the layer using the plug in, clicking save layer, clicking the play button and witing until the painting has been played back, then clicking it again. The paintLayer will now be shown in the tools menu. I then paint my model completely white again if I wish to have the equivalent of 2 photoshop layers. I then create a new layer using the plug in, and paint onto the tool/model until I am happy, and then I save it. This would leave me with the equivalent of two separate photoshop layers, you can go on making as many layers as you wish. When you have a number of paint layers you can then combine them together by following the instructions of the plug in to select the base layer, requiring you to click select base twice, first to select the paintlayer you want from the tools, and the second to make the selection of the tool on the screen, and then selecting new layers and clicking adding layer to add another layer, changing the RGB setting to vary transparency and blend/mix layers. While this doesn't have all the features of photoshop, I use it to create two layers or more and blend them together to see the final result, giving me a good idea of how a top and bottom skin layers will look when blended and exporting them separately if needed or as a single blended texture depending on what I am working on.

Thanks again Eddie.

#23

I am going to be checking this out when I get home tonight.

Is the link on the initial post to this thread the latest version of all the files?

#24

:+1: :+1: wow~so good

#25

So is there a way that i can use this layerpaint plugin to work with Zapplink? I do most of my painting in PS with Zapplink. I noticed when I hit the play button. Nothing is happening. I’m guessing that’s because I haven’t done any actual painting within zbrush…

#26

does this work with zbrush 3.5 r3?

#27

Eddy, Are you planning adapt it to Z4?