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#1

Hi.

In the past when I’ve made a simple, spherical eye, I have grouped the mesh into 3 parts: Pupil, Iris and White so that each group could have its own material. I tried to reproduce this yesterday with no success. Whenever I isolate a group to assign it a material, the material for all groups changes. What am I missing this time around?

Also, when I apply a texture to the eye (iris art), the base material becomes over-ridden and views as the default Red Clay, even though the preview windows show the base material (Toy Plastic/White) previously filled in.

Thanks!

~S.~

#2

Hi.

I think I know what’s up. When I made a New Texture from my polypaint iris, two files were generated: a .PSD file and a .MTL file, a ‘Material’ file. Somewhere along the way, this .MTL file was misplaced or deleted. When I re-made the New Texture, I made sure to keep the .MTL file in the same folder with the .PSD. So far, no more problem.

Thanks, All!

~S.~

#3

See here: http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Materials_and_SubTools

Or use SubTool Master, from the Download Center. See my signature.

#4

Thanks, Aurick!

Say, is there such a thing as a ‘Transparent’ material in ZBRush? Maybe ZBrush 4? I mean a ‘Material’ that can be assigned or polypainted to parts of a model so that lenses, windows, eyes, bottles, etc. could have controllable opacity without each piece requiring a separate document layer.

Thanks!

~S.~