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Materials into Maya?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

How do you get the materials/shaders that you use in Zbrush into Maya?

When i export my object with texture etc a .mtl file is included, but in Maya it just change some Duffuse values on a lambert or whatever and is hardly looking the same as in Zbrush!

I mainly looking how to export a skin shader with my texture from zbrush into maya so i can render it there! Maby someone has a workflow tutorial on how to create a great skin shader and texture? :slight_smile: (Looking to render with MentalRay if that has anything to do with the creation in any case.)

#2

unfortunatly, you cannot use ZBrush materials in maya.

If you are looking to do skin, i suggest you use the MiSSS fast skin shader from mental ray…

ZB is a great programme to get a fast result to pre visualise your skin in maya though…but yea, it is a bummer, as ZB has some really great materials!

#3

ok, thank you for tipsing me about MiSSS fast skin shader from mental ray :slight_smile:

#4

So if we use zmapper etc to texture our characters, we can’t transfer that into MAYA? - i know normal maps etc can be transfered by why not our texture work? ( or is it only the material shaders like plastic toy etc???) sorry just confused on that one

#5

textures yes…you can export them. you can even bake the material into the textures but you cannot export the shader itself out of zbrush and into maya.

#6

I’ve seen the ‘bake material’ plugin, but whe I download the zip file all I seem to get are a load of jpegs and a link to the skin tutorial - :cry:
is this plugin the only way to bake my material onto my texture? :qu: I really want to use it in maya… !:mad: