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Zbrush to Maya for rendering - can someone please help?

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#1

Sooooooo, here’s my dilemma - I’m trying to bring my ZBrush creation into Maya 2009 so that I can utilize maya as my rendering engine, however I have no idea what to do. Sure I can export the model as an obj but then what? I’ve got it painted within zbrush/textured within zbrush as well. What do I do to get it into Maya from ZBrush, with the poly paint, textured, etc? Can someone lay out the steps for me so that I can do this? (it’s a valentine’s day “card” for my gf, who’s coming into town tomorrow night, so, trying to get this wrapped up before-hand)

Also I should note that the ztl is comprised of 6 subtools: 1 main body, jacket, belt, pants, rock to stand on, accessory.

Thanks in advance!

#2

you need to find a tutorial on displacement or normal mapping, and saving out texture maps. this is far too large a question for someone to answer on here, but you can do some searches, check out some gnomonology videos, and its easy enough to figure out for yourself. good luck

#3

Well that’s what I’m talking about - I get the textures and definition out through normal and disp maps? I get the painted “skins” out by making a texture map?