*** More about ZBrush 3.5

[Nemoid]

This is awesome guys!.. Simply brilliant! I can’t wait to get my hands on 3.5.

Now, not to take away your thunder or anything Pix’ but this did bring one question to mind for me though. There still doesn’t seem to be any accomodations for true volumetric operations. Having the ability to subtract to a greater degree to create cavities and holes within a mass instead of having to build up around them. I see independent ZSpheres can influence one another but it doesn’t look like there are any operations that could be used to create severe cavities without stretching your mesh in the depression after skinning. If they can’t, then perhaps that would be an aspect that’s still missing from the new sculpting tools in ZB4. Let’s say you want to model and light something like a wedge of Swiss cheese with interpenetrating holes. I mean, I haven’t seen anyone actually attempt to sculpt a wedge of Swiss cheese, coz we’re talking about overlapping cavity depressions which would be insane, but perhaps it is something to think about when considering acceptable limitations for ZB’s sculpting tools. I modeled a photorealistic wedge of cheese like this for a job a few years ago and it would have gone a lot faster if I could have sculpted it. I just tested that now in 3D Coat and was able to do this easily using voxels.

It would also be cool if the surface noise feature could be applied as a volumetric hypertexture which would mean I could perhaps model something like this almost instantly. But in order to do that I guess it would have to be something like a voxel based sculpt or some sort of parametric object.

But yeah, I don’t think it’s going to be all that easy for the Mudbox crew to borrow from ZB anymore. Even Mudwalker falls way short of GoZ. I’m surprised they beat Pix’ to Headus UV Layout though. My guess is AD will go with voxels instead which seams like an easier implementation.

Congratulations Pixologic! Never doubted you guys for a minute.

voxels would easily allow such operations as booleans and cutting the mesh as if it was made of clay. the only cheap app doing this now is 3D coat,which is voxel based sculpting. it allows to make things like these and also some more hard surface modelling but it isn’t at the same level of Zbrush when sculpting, for now. Tho, it is more interesting in features than Mudbox. I think one could use both Zbrush and 3d coat together quite easily.

[alexleia]

Great updates!

Alex

[gwainbarek]

thats it,
i deinstall zbrush 3.2 untill 3.5 is released:D
you guys from pixologic are just amazing,
cant wait to get started with the new hard surface modeling tools.

ich glaube ich lasse mich wie eric cartman einfrieren bis Zbrush 3.5 kommtsmall_orange_diamond

[KRGraphics]

I really love the new noise function…I used to do this function in photoshop to get the look of skin but this just got easier to do. I also wonder if this will be able to be bake into my normal maps. And can we also do this with HD Geometry? And how will the baking of normal maps be handled?

I am just so psyched about the new ZB that i am planning on redoing my models just to take advantage of HD Modelling

[Intervain]

I spent some weekends walking inside Pixologic officer and trying some news beta features ,man ,believe , there are MORE to came !!, It’s just a start.The Pixologic guys are crazy wizzards!

Alex Oliver

you’re a sadist Alex… hahaha

Brett… wish I could try it all out… at least my model had a go LOL

[Schneidi]

Oh guys, thank you. Thats exactly what I’m waiting for.

ZBrush is the perfekt tool, but you made this masterpiece every time much better than I would expect.

You guys are great.

Ich liebe ZBrush…

[TheGreenMachine]

now I can’t wait even more :lol: :lol:

just AMAZING stuff

[Nemoid]

I spent some weekends walking inside Pixologic officer and trying some news beta features ,man ,believe , there are MORE to came !!, It’s just a start.The Pixologic guys are crazy wizzards!

Alex Oliver

That’s great to know !

Those presented, are magic features yet, can’t imagine what they can add more to this wonderful app… maybe layers for painting and possibility to have/work with more maps at the same time per object, some enhanced retopology tools, but who knows…

[Antropus]

I spent some weekends walking inside Pixologic officer and trying some news beta features ,man ,believe , there are MORE to came !!, It’s just a start.The Pixologic guys are crazy wizzards!

Alex Oliver

Alex, this is not Brazil! Here you can get in trouble if you spend a mere second inside of an officer!!! :lol:

Awesome stuff. Waiting for the release!

-Kris

[Clappy71]

:DI was hoping to use GoZ on my final portfolio pieces which have hard surface components. But those hardsurface brushes and Zspheres may do the trick. I may even be able to save Maya just for rendering and retopology.

Sweet!

MC

[jonnyd_artiste]

zbrush eats muddy 4 breakfast!!!:lol:
i love u pixologic!
will u marry me???

[Cezar_Souza]

…such a tease

Now the only thing they really should make better is their ability to estimate time:

“We estimate testing will end shortly and ZBrush 3.5 will be available … this coming week.”

What happened to “…The Windows version of 3.5 will be released by the end of August…”??

[scottleroc]

Fantastic new features guys. Zbrush 3.5 is probably the best thing that will happen for me this year, is that sad

[elektro]

just for the info:

https://support.pixologic.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=16

bye e

[roger_01]

Simply amazing!!! Looking forward to the new release!:D

[system]

amazing!!!Can’t wait to see the release~~~~:eek:

[m0delista]

Fantastic news tools ! i cant wait for test this !!!

[NoWayOut]

Looks awesome! But take the time to make it stable.

Now it just needs to support 64bit and I´m more than happy.
ZBrush definitely is the most amazing piece of software I´ve ever used

[hobo]

just for the info:

https://support.pixologic.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=16

bye e

so now we’ve just got to check our emails every 5 mins instead …

[ministerart]

Am i correct in thinking that Go Z is included in the Zbrush 4 update?..not this interim update?.

Still cant wait though…zbrush does wipe the floor with the competition. We should all be grateful for such a whopping free upgrade. look at mudbox 2009…they simply gold plated a turd with that one…and expected owners to pay as well.