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OMG frustration, ZbrushCentral is maybe not being user friendly! 
Liking your LEGO art MealeaYing!
Wondering if Zbrush 4r7 will allow one to use Lego blocks as scatter objects?
We can define micromesh to be legos !
fibremesh lego isnāt quite micromesh legoā¦ could be hot lego !
That is so awesome!
Flaming lego!
Hey Mealea! 
what about just uploading a zip of an RTF or Word doc if thereās some problem
here with ZBC deleting it?
Also, still having fun with your autoloops tutorial (see attached zip). I re-formatted it slightly to help me
follow it. Still the best tut on loops Iāve found. ;)
BTW, one realllllly neat thing is the obj created/exported by ZB is made up
of many editable parts, so they can each take a different materialā¦or be animated.
And thanks for the link to Magica Voxel Rendererā¦looks like a winner.
modeled in ZB4r6, rendered in C4Dr11
AutoGroupsLoops_MealeaYing.zip (2.79 KB)
hmmmm its broken again!
Sorry, I meant to comment on your render.
ITS GREAT!
So you are getting the hang of that stuff huh? Thats awesome.
Are you doing other things as well??
If so, start a thread and post stuff if you have time, its a great way to learn more stuff here.
Hello Mealea, Iām posting this at the risk of you going " Oh Shoot! not that again!!".
You see, Iām a newcommer to the art of displacement in ZBrush ( I guess there always will be moreā¦) and I have
frustrating issues I canāt seem to solve on my ownā¦surprise, surpriseā¦
2 things :
First, I was just wondering wether the problem presented on page 96 of this thread regarding the handling of
H and V repeats not functionning āproperlyā while pressing the āapply disp.ā button was ultimately resolved.
Thereās talk here about exporting/importing the base mesh to solve this problem amongst other attempted solutions.
The thing is, there is a SIMPLE solution to this āproblemā Iāve not seen elswhere that doesnāt require all of this finagling.
For example, in the attached image I never ex/imported anything and I also NEVER use the āapply disp.ā button in the Displacement Palette
and yet there IS still lots of displacement in this image ( I used PUV 4 X 4, GroupLoops, Mesh Extract etcā¦). Does this issue still ring a bell with you?
( Displacement map from the amazing Michalis. Thank U, Thank U, Thank Uā¦)
The main reason Iām writing is that you often metionned that you apply the disp. map more than once and that is creeping me up the wall!
I know you do so, if you say so, but how is that even possible? and for what reason is this done? Can I be so bold as to ask you to
alleviate my pain on this matter by retorquing a short explanation?
I still have other issues butā¦one at a time.
Thank you so much for your wonderful ZB Thread.
Hey Mealea!
Sorry I didnāt see your reply earlier from 12/6. Yeah, Iām still trying to get the hang of
the workflow. I tend to get stuck mentally, i.e. once I get an object, Iāll take it to VUE, C4D,
etc. and play with it in different scenes.
But I need to think outside the torus like you, and create something really alien.
Taking a plane trip tomorrow, and will spend time on your lego tutā¦thanks for doing it.
I copy/pasted as .rtf, and printed it out to chew on the plane.
I also packed the loops tuts, too. Practice, practice, practice.
BTW, for anyone late to this thread, if you havenāt already, highly recommend
starting on page 1 of this thead, and going through 3-5 pages a dayā¦at that rate, it would
still take you 40-25 days! =O But worth it, imho.
Happy New Year & Happy ZBrushing! :)
(especially when R7 is releasedā¦soon, I hope)
And keep safe wherever you are in this increasingly dangerous world.
the number one always here, a hugsmall_orange_diamondsmall_orange_diamond
Hey There,ā¦ Thanx a mil for your toughts on ZB.
I would like you to try out Paleo3Dās method of displacement and see if it suits you well.
( this can be used as a PREVIEW to your displacement)
And there you be!!! You get out of this THE SAME AS IF YOU HAD USED APPLY DISP. IN THE DISPLACEMENT PALETTE !!!
No PhotoShop, no ex/importing and enjoy the simplicityā¦
After using the disp. Palette, Zbrushās arteries ( read : memory ) seem to clog up and render time is usually impossibly LOOOOOOOOONG.
An added advantage with this method, is that when done, you can can Render immediatly with very short render time! No more waiting!
I made the attached image in less than 1/2 hour using this method. Here undos are simple
and you can quickly try out different Displ. Mapsā¦etc
Again, thank you ( and Michalis ) so much for your insperations.
You may not know what you are doing, but at least you are doing it wellā¦
THAT was it!
āI seem to remember figuring out a way of converting the preview to polypaint and using that as a secondary displacement map, but I donāt remember now if I managed that or just thought it up, in theory it should be doable.ā
I just totally forgot how.
Thank you for this, I forget more than I realize sometimes!
@PFC:
I adore you you know!
VostĆØ Ć©s esplĆØndid!
Hmmmā¦
Thats oddā¦ its NOT working and Im not sure whyā¦
I need coffeeā¦
It applied the texture just fine, but the mask came out at 1x1 and I have no clue whyā¦
Im going to try again, this is weird.
Nopeā¦
It doesnt wā¦ orkā¦
Wait a moment!
AHHA!!!
What I didnāt do was use the PolyPaint Pallet to apply the texture properly!
I am an airhead!!!
So to get the texture onto your object at something other than 1x1 when applying the mask you select your mask in the texture pallet and then in the PolyPaint pallet you hit the PolyPaint From Texture button after turning up the repeat in the UV Pallet.
THAT was what I was forgetting and now it works great!
I got this working wonderfully a long time ago but got sidetracked by work and another bit of software that I have since ditched and totally forgot!
Thank you VERY MUCH for reminding me!
HI ya,
You donāt need to deal with with the PolyPaint subPalette at allā¦
Just import the Disp. Map by clicking the Texture icon to the left ( above the Material icon ) and press Mrgb.
And thatās itā¦simplicity at its bestā¦
This method is so elegant and simple I think it should be used universally from anybody disiring to displace anything.
Notice how fast the render is after using this method, unlike when using the Displacement Paletteā¦
Please tell me that things are OK now with thisā¦ ( As a rebel you can also Inflate as many times as you wish!)
You mentionned something about displacement through the Suface/Noise Palette . I tried it and I like, I like. ( see attached )
Thanx for this.
Skip your steps 5 through 8 and :
Just import the Disp. Map by clicking the Texture icon to the left ( above the Material icon ) and press Mrgb.
But make sure that you are at the highest subdivision level ( into the millions of polys) BEFORE hitting Mrgb or RGB.
Its really that simpleā¦ NO Texture Map Pallet. and NO PolyPaint Palette.
As you press Mrgb the Map ( as an ordinary TEXTURE ) will appear on you mesh. Then Maskā¦etc
I know you will get this;)
Ok weird, I tried exactly that but it doesnāt do anything.
As in no texture gets appliedā¦
Hmmmmmā¦
Do EXACTLY what Iāve said before and kick me in the butt 'cause I took it for granted that by turning on Mrgb
that that also meant to press the Fill Object buttonā¦( I feel very little right nowā¦Please donāt hurt me for this omission ).
HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thats awesome!
I should have known that!!! ITS SO OBVIOUS!
What is rather interesting is I went for the hard way instead of figuring that out!
I love omissions like this, they make me think, so Im NOT going to hurt you, Im going to kick my self instead!
Please post an image example using this receipe and let me know how smooth it went and how fast the render was.
( How do you like your rebel portrait? )
Paleo.
Okā¦
Heres a quicky:
Its just a sphere and your method works great, it just requires very clean maps or you get slight lumpiness.
grrā¦
ZBCās image size thing is getting me againā¦
Hang onā¦