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Very New to 3D.. need a texture tutorial!

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi,
I have never done 3D art of any kind before, but have fallen in love with zBrush, it is amazing! I have done my first sculpted head with the help from Jason Welsh’s turorials and have poly painted it. But I want to texture the eyes using some textures I found on these forums, when I apply the texture it looks out of place and no turning or flipping in the textures options makes any difference.

Can anyone suggest a texture tutorial for a complete novice? The eyes are not perfect spheres (kind of squashed to fit the eye sockets), which may not help.

Thanks very much in advance. :smiley:

#2

I’ve got the texture looking ok on a polymesh sphere. But can’t get it so the texture is only on the eyes not the head (eyes are a sub tool) any ideas.

#3

ZBrush 3.12 can assign textures to individual SubTools, so the Mac users are ahead of the game right now in this area. As a 3.1 user, what you need to do is convert your texture to PolyPaint using the Tool:small_orange_diamond:Texture:small_orange_diamond:Txr>Col button.

You can learn more about PolyPaint from the documentation and ZClassroom in my signature.

#4

Thanks.

I ended up applying textures and the “dropping them”? using shift s. It was a horrible way of doing it as I could not move the main part of my sculpture in sync with the bit’s I’d textured. I’ll def check out the poly painting approach.