I’m loving the integration with ZBrush 4 and Maya 2011 through GoZ. It’s working flawlessly for me. Very very cool! 
Okay, don’t hate me but I’m also a Mudbox 2011 user 
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And the integration between MB and Maya is also flawless via the exchange plugin that more or less acts just like manually exporting fbx, except does it with one click to send objects back and forth between Maya and Mudbox. It works pretty much the same as GoZ with a few limitations and differences.
The one thing that bugs me about GoZ though is this:
If I’m painting an object in Mudbox I can send the whole deal to Maya, and I can then even send the mesh to ZBrush with the GoZ shelf button. Even if ZBrush isn’t opened, it will open it and load the mesh.
But that’s the problem - only the mesh and no textures.
Why would I want a texture? you ask. Well for one thing it would help with sculpting. I honestly prefer painting in 3D in Mudbox to poly painting in ZBrush, but I prefer scultping in ZBrush and the normal and displacement maps that ZBrush creates. And being able to see a texture on the model helps with the sculpting in many cases. That might be the backwards way of doing it, but that’s not always how I do it. Sometimes I sculpt first, it just depends on what I’m doing and how well I planned it out… or how I didn’t plan it out in some cases lol.
I’m not a one app sort of guy, and I have my needs and my workflow and that’s all there is to it.
So I don’t suppose there’s any “reverse GoZ” sort of plugin that will send textures from Maya as well, is there? I’m thinking, it will send a textured object from ZB to Maya and back again, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to send a textured object FROM Maya to ZB, one that didn’t originate in ZB, that is.
If there isn’t any way, I’d like to suggest that there should be in the future.
Oh also I want to take this opportunity to once again request a GoZ for Softimage.
As it is now I can use GoZ to send an object to Maya and then send it to Softimage through the .xsi Crosswalk plugin, but a GoZ for Softimage would just make it much easier and quicker.