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Question about stencil to PM

Hello,

I have a problem when trying to pick up the stencil image to the Projection master and see if anyone can give me some help.

I need to create some “embross” pattern on a model and need to create a mask by importing a photoshop file via Alpha and then create stencil to resize it to the desired proportion. Then I pick it up with the Projection Master and drop it to create a texture map (much as the stencil-based deformation tutorial ) , and then export it back to Alpha so I can use it as mask. The problem is my original Photoshop file is 3072 X 3072 pixels, but turned to a 1024 X1024 pixels texture map after “picking up” with the Projection master. And when I load the mask from Alpha ( create from the texture map ) , it became much pixalated and have not enough resolution to create enough details. The model itself is about 600000 polygons which seems to be enough ( is it? ) but the mask itself seems to be quite pixalated.

The new tutorial of the PM mentioned that it will create a texture map of 1024 X 1024 pixels while the “Stencil-based deformation” tutorial mentioned about the possibility of setting texture size to 4096 X 4096. Don’t know if I’d missed out some steps or the size of the texture map is what give rise to the problem and is there a way to work round it?

Thanks in advance

vince

Hi Vince,
I hope I understood your problem right. You should set the texture size (texture menu) before you go into TextureMaster. That way you can set the texture size up to 4096x4096.

I hope it helps. Cheers.

This link about Stencil by Aurick :slight_smile:
Pilou

Hi Drmapl and Frenchy,

It works perfect now;-) Thanks for all the help to this new Zbrush addict:-)) Now my days is fulltime Zbrushing ( as hobby ) and part-time working for bread and butter:-))))

vince