Hi guys,
I’ve been trying and failing at trying to paint using cavity mask in zbrush 4.
Can any of you give me the basic steps to get going? I’ve looked at some old tutorials for zbrush 3.x and it seems too changed now.
Thanks for any help.
If you mean the cavity auto masking option in the brush palette, its currently broken in zbrush4
Thanks for the reply…I thought I was going nuts there for a while!
Are there any workarounds?
Use ‘Mask by Cavity’ in Tool > Masking submenu.
I’ve been trying that too…and playing with the intensity/blur…but it just seems as if I’m painting normally. I’m painting on a scaly character with high and low frequency details.
Are there any steps I’m missing? Or will this only create a default map (ie: not a setup for painting the cavity map manually…as I only want to use it in various parts) ?
Maybe your conception of cavity masking is different. I’m not quite sure of what it is that you are trying to achieve. Below is sculpted, then masked and polypainted.
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Thanks for the images. The blur of 80 does indeed help the look.
My conception of CavityMask is fine, with a negative intensity of -100 painting the hollows and +100 painting the peaks. But isn’t your suggested way; using the tool > masking > mask by cavity, just making the whole surface covered in the cavitymask final look? (with the requirement of re-painting over this cavitymask to get the non-cavityMask looking areas?) For example I only want to paint some details around the eyes/ears/nose using a more painterly approach (as was the case in 3.5 r3 from all the videos I can see on youtube, etc). Please correct me if this is not the case.
EDIT: Just in case that comes across as sounding grumpy, it totally isn’t! I’m very grateful for the help!..and thanks for your efforts!
Here’s one I remember looking at…painzang’s video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySiQlTbLEXQ
I love the way he uses it subtly and in selective areas.