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UV's in ZBrush or other App?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi, I am looking to buy ZBrush and I was wondering if you can create UV’s in ZBrush that will be editable in Photoshop?

If not can anyone recommend a good (cheap) mac app for creating UV maps?

Mac OSX

Thanks :slight_smile:

#2

You can create UVs in Blender (www.blender.org).
Its open source available for Mac, Windows, Linux.

2.49a is the latest version but coming soon is version 2.5 with a significantly updated user interface, which currently is a bit odd but get over that and it has advanced UV creation and editing. Use objs to move models between zbrush and blender.

Richard[

#3

Thanks Richard, yes Blender is great… Unfortunately I have yet to learn it, but hope to soon. In the mean time I was hoping to find a simple UV unwrapping app to unwrap my models for ZBrush so if someone can recommend an good but inexpensive one for mac that would be helpful. :slight_smile:

Also, I guess ZBrush doesn’t allow their UV maps to be edited in Photoshop does it? I really hope ZBrush will add a UV editor to ZBrush soon or does it already have this?

#4

I would still recommend blender. If you just want to UV unwrap you can forget about most of the functionality.
Import obj, select seams, U to unwrap. Adjust in UV image editor, export obj.

Richard

#5

That sounds pretty simple. I might have to give that a try. Thanks Richard! :slight_smile: