ZBrush 4.0 Purchase and Upgrade Schedule

[system]

Hey all. Thought I would say a few words regarding z4 at siggraph. I went through today and picked up my license and was excited to see some great features!

What I saw was a lot of reselling of features we are all aware of. Which was unfortunate because I really wanted to hit the fast forward button. This was mostly because the people in the crowd had little to no experience with Zbrush, so the man demoing at the time didn’t want to jump to far ahead I suppose.

But here is a list of a few things that I saw, and were briefly mentioned that I thought sounded/looked very promising. Sorry in advance to Pixologic for spilling some of the beans:

• Improved Best Render - Allowing you to render out multiple shots of your image in one render, compositing it all in zbrush as you would in photoshop. Also allowing you to export out each image of that render to allow for more customization in photoshop.

• Subtool Control - Better ways to organize your subtools. Organizing by name of subtool rather than scrolling a giant list.

• Fiber FX - This wasn’t gone over much… sadly. Sounded like a hair and fur simulator within zbrush.

• Improved Layers - Allowing the artist to paint in layers, control the opacity of each polypaint layer, and more.

• Saving of Project - this will save out your tool’s orientation, rotation, everything as is. So the next time you open zbrush up and load your Project, everything is how you left it. Including every singe setting on every single slider. Very handy!

• Duplication of Subtools - No longer do you need to clone, then append a subtool to duplicate it. A simple button does everything for you now allowing you to quickly clutter your creatures mouth with teeth!

• Expand - A new feature that explodes your tool and its subtools into space allowing the user to quickly select one of the subtools. Rather than scrolling through the subtool list you can click the expand button which is located under the frame button in the UI on the right, and you’ll see all the subtools fly out in space. Pretty nifty.

Those are some of the little things I saw while I was able to stick around the Pixologic booth. I’ll post more as I remember them haha. Happy Zbrushing!

Improved Layers! thanks pixologic! the project saving sounds excellent too. bring on Z4.

[MotleyPete]

Sound like a whole host of awesome is on the way. Thanks for the info KPtoons.

[moonlitmaverick]

I was very impressed by shadowbox ( I am still figuring out what i can do with it) and I think it is okay to be impressed and be overwhelmed with the pure awesomeness of new features. Eventually things become commonplace but let’s enjoy this fully now. I am just a 3d hobbyist whose real work is graphic design and advertising. I avoided going into 3d as a profession because i couldn’t wrap my head around the way 3d work was done. It was beyond my grasp. Now ZBrush is emerging as a game changer and I am feeling compelled to give 3d more serious consideration.

I could never do polygonal modeling, extruding, pushing points, edgeloops…pah , regrettably it just didn’t appeal to me. I am hoping that Z4 will make retopology more intuitive and i can both sculpt and create production ready models that are animatable. I just wish the innovation reflected in Shadowbox enters retopology too. waiting eagerly for more videos. i just feel high and pleased nowadays going through my everyday life.

[campi]

• Improved Layers - Allowing the artist to paint in layers, control the opacity of each polypaint layer, and more.
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Was it the same layer integration like in the Sculpting Layers ? Are they shared across Subtools ?

[splodge]

Does ZB4 cure cancer? :rolleyes:

Would you be happy if it did? Or would you complain that such a feature had no place in a sculpting program?

For some reason I suspect the later…

[TeZzy]

I probably missed it, but since there is layers for polypainting. Is there any word about pixel painting?

[splodge]

• Saving of Project - this will save out your tool’s orientation, rotation, everything as is. So the next time you open zbrush up and load your Project, everything is how you left it. Including every singe setting on every single slider. Very handy!

This is a really needed feature and something I’ve really appreciated when using 3D Coat. It’s nice to just carry on from where you left off.

[_Light]

No offense but… what? Did I miss some awesome memo somewhere that shows a ton of amazing new features in ZB4? So far very little info has come out and the little that has is cool but hardly worthy of all of the brown nosing that’s going on in here. Does ZB4 cure cancer? :rolleyes:

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[joebount]

Sounds great

ANy news on the retopology front ?

[Intervain]

Would you be happy if it did? Or would you complain that such a feature had no place in a sculpting program?

For some reason I suspect the later…

touche

[earthtriber]

amazing thank you Zbrush! looks like a whole bunch of new techniques to help me become the artist i never knew i could be you guys are simply amazing! x

[lukkas1759]

realy cool

[Dmonk]

Day two, so I’m hoping we get a full feature list Shadowbox will serious help with a project I’m doing right now and I really hop that retopology gets refined.

I’m really excited to get all the details even though I get my hands on the actual release in a few weeks.

[Felderin]

• Saving of Project - this will save out your tool’s orientation, rotation, everything as is. So the next time you open zbrush up and load your Project, everything is how you left it. Including every singe setting on every single slider. Very handy!

You know, this is one of those things that might seem boring compared to all the flashy stuff like Shadowbox and paint layers (which are, to be fair, great additions), but I’m really glad that Pixologic are devoting some attention to basic workflow-related things like this. I’ve been using ZBrush for ten years, and I still find the whole “your project is a tool” paradigm to be incredibly clunky. Something as simple as the ability to save the thing you are working on and then come back to it just as it was when you saved it is a VERY welcome addition.

[miccasso]

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p.s.
I hope and pray for painting layer

thank you

[GrizzlyJake]

You know, this is one of those things that might seem boring compared to all the flashy stuff like Shadowbox and paint layers (which are, to be fair, great additions), but I’m really glad that Pixologic are devoting some attention to basic workflow-related things like this. I’ve been using ZBrush for ten years, and I still find the whole “your project is a tool” paradigm to be incredibly clunky. Something as simple as the ability to save the thing you are working on and then come back to it just as it was when you saved it is a VERY welcome addition.

AGREED! When i teach or talk to someone about ZBrush i get the question on that alot. “Save Project” will be great to have!! The animation-like timeline? Can’t wait to see more on that…it’s limitations. Layers Polypainting…oh yeah, very nice indeed. Come on Pixolator…it’s a new day…how about another video? pretty please?!?

[boil147]

Wow! Looks great! My organic modelling kind of sucks, but each new release has had me using Zbrush for more and more different things. It’s now much easier for me to prouce something organic that is passable as a distraction from hard surface modelling and writing and … all the other things I’m meant to be doing… great!

[CGicore]

Hey all. Thought I would say a few words regarding z4 at siggraph. I went through today and picked up my license and was excited to see some great features!

What I saw was a lot of reselling of features we are all aware of. Which was unfortunate because I really wanted to hit the fast forward button. This was mostly because the people in the crowd had little to no experience with Zbrush, so the man demoing at the time didn’t want to jump to far ahead I suppose.

But here is a list of a few things that I saw, and were briefly mentioned that I thought sounded/looked very promising. Sorry in advance to Pixologic for spilling some of the beans:

• Improved Best Render - Allowing you to render out multiple shots of your image in one render, compositing it all in zbrush as you would in photoshop. Also allowing you to export out each image of that render to allow for more customization in photoshop.

• Subtool Control - Better ways to organize your subtools. Organizing by name of subtool rather than scrolling a giant list.

• Fiber FX - This wasn’t gone over much… sadly. Sounded like a hair and fur simulator within zbrush.

• Improved Layers - Allowing the artist to paint in layers, control the opacity of each polypaint layer, and more.

• Saving of Project - this will save out your tool’s orientation, rotation, everything as is. So the next time you open zbrush up and load your Project, everything is how you left it. Including every singe setting on every single slider. Very handy!

• Duplication of Subtools - No longer do you need to clone, then append a subtool to duplicate it. A simple button does everything for you now allowing you to quickly clutter your creatures mouth with teeth!

• Expand - A new feature that explodes your tool and its subtools into space allowing the user to quickly select one of the subtools. Rather than scrolling through the subtool list you can click the expand button which is located under the frame button in the UI on the right, and you’ll see all the subtools fly out in space. Pretty nifty.

Those are some of the little things I saw while I was able to stick around the Pixologic booth. I’ll post more as I remember them haha. Happy Zbrushing!

Thank you for the details.

Is there blend modes (overlay, multiplay, etc etc) in Zbrush too?

[HumbertTheHorse]

• Improved Best Render - Allowing you to render out multiple shots of your image in one render, compositing it all in zbrush as you would in photoshop. Also allowing you to export out each image of that render to allow for more customization in photoshop.

• Subtool Control - Better ways to organize your subtools. Organizing by name of subtool rather than scrolling a giant list.

• Fiber FX - This wasn’t gone over much… sadly. Sounded like a hair and fur simulator within zbrush.

• Improved Layers - Allowing the artist to paint in layers, control the opacity of each polypaint layer, and more.

• Saving of Project - this will save out your tool’s orientation, rotation, everything as is. So the next time you open zbrush up and load your Project, everything is how you left it. Including every singe setting on every single slider. Very handy!

• Duplication of Subtools - No longer do you need to clone, then append a subtool to duplicate it. A simple button does everything for you now allowing you to quickly clutter your creatures mouth with teeth!

• Expand - A new feature that explodes your tool and its subtools into space allowing the user to quickly select one of the subtools. Rather than scrolling through the subtool list you can click the expand button which is located under the frame button in the UI on the right, and you’ll see all the subtools fly out in space. Pretty nifty.

Thanks for the info. And, of course, thanks Pixologic, you guys only provide good surprises.

[WilD-AL-ALBERTO]

I think I speak for everybody if I say

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