First attempt Zbrush3 poly-paint for game model (WIP)

[moiremusic]

That is wicked. Nice work. What's a "cavity map"?

[wizo5454]

wow, just ....... speechless. Kickass Model! I hope I can get to see this in action some day.

[Testament]

So i would love to ask about how to get the cavity from a zbrush shader setting into a texture map. i already try alot of other method like z mapper, or using projection master and paint just the material with the shader cavity setting and pick up as a texture, and create displacment map and crop and fill with the shader 's setting, and overlay that map to the colour map.. but i still find that the shader setting give the best result and more control..

I think you just mentioned all the ways to create a cavity map. I use the lat method you mentioned, displacement + crop and fill + shader cavity settings. Seems to work fine for me, just make sure you merge that same map in your specular one in order to get a more pronounced and realistic look.

Nice work by the way. The arm seems a bit weird tho, but that might just be the angle.

[Ziboo]

hi, realy cool model, nice work.
Maybe i have a solution:
- You can go in "Masking" menu, and press "Mask by cavity"
- Then, you can set your brush on low rgb intensity, select a black color
and paint into the cavity of your model.

I'm not shure it work, but you can test that.

Bye

[mindrot]

Very nice work kinston. The texturing is great.

Not too sure about the hands, but that's probably because they aren't fully visable.

~M~

[MatthewNovak]

Omg, i can only hope to be as good as you one day.

[kinston]

thanks alot for the kind words.

i use a few method to create the cavity map and compare the result.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/kinston2/cavity.01jpg.jpg

the result i find is much better by using the shader cavity and paint material in projection master

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/kinston2/cavity.02jpg.jpg

and my question is, is there a way to bake all the information of the shader material included all the shader setting in to a texture map instead of using projection master to paint material?because painting in projection master just take too long to keep rotating angles and paint for a character. i m sure there is a way to bake all the information to a texture map without using PM, just cant figure it out for the moment...

[Kanga]

Nice work buddy!
The mouth is looking a little dry, you might try some specularity to wet it up a bit. As to your question about baking textures. If you want the end model in a game engine then I think that only accepts seperate maps like bump, texture, reflection (don't believe deformation though I could be wrong). and normal maps for deform. For a cinematic you will probably have to chuck out seperate maps to create your own combined shader in the 3d app your pipeline uses.

Maybe not much help but a bump from me:)

Lookin great.
Chris

[chrisdejoya]

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[chrisdejoya]

Hey Kingston, great to see some art from ksatria finally surfacing. This model looks fantasic. I'm looking forward to the big unveilling in September. :)

Not a lot of experience in generating cavity maps in Z3, but try giving Xnormal a spin. It has a tool that approximates cavity maps from a tangent space normal map, and you should be able to tweak it to your liking in Photoshop...

http://xnormal.net

The tool is a Photoshop filter by the way.

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