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noktek
07-13-2009, 06:39 PM
Hi there everyone, sorry for overwhelming this otherwise high-level forum with newbie questions, but i found something very interesting on youtube today, and it inspired me pretty much: i happen to be more of an analogic illustrator than anything else and i tend to draw (and repeat all over the place) many tiny details (far from it, but reminds a bit the way Klimt textured cloth and such stuff). The video i saw on youtube was this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlQ9QAe6ZkA
this guy shows how to bake a displacement map of an already modelled geometry and then use it as a brush, so you basically sculpt around the tiny details i was talking about (bricks in this case). So my question is (and i think zbrush can do it already, not sure thou): is there a way iassociate my actual UVs with the displacement map so i can sculpt and paint at the same time? It would be rather silly having to manually texture every tiny brick when i could have them textured before i draw them on my mesh...

Wayne
07-13-2009, 09:05 PM
The Guy who recorded that is Dave Cardwell one of the orgnal skymmater guys and mudbox 'dude' at autodesk... also a good mate.

But in answer to your question while you can't sculpt and texture at the same time it is possible to synch them very easily. Either by using a pair of stencils (one for sculptign and one with your colour info) or by painting fine details as a bump map and using this as a mask in photoshop to darken or recolor fine areas of detail. (Which is actually a very powerful technique as its very very accurate..far more than zb's cavity masking abilities in my opinion.)

In the Mudbox Requiem timelapse of mine, if you look carefully I do a few wthings when texturing to synch the high detail and the fine texture details. ;)


Wayne...

noktek
07-14-2009, 02:02 AM
Thanks for the replies Wayne, may i ask you if a "slowmotion" video of the dutchmasterclass was ever released?
best regards Raffaele

Wayne
07-14-2009, 09:12 AM
Thanks for the replies Wayne, may i ask you if a "slowmotion" video of the dutchmasterclass was ever released?
best regards Raffaele


No but I have played around with the idea of expanding it to a full character as a DVD if there was enough interest to make it worthwhile.

Wayne...

noktek
07-14-2009, 01:31 PM
including retopologizing? saw your introduction to topogun and it got me goin within 30 minutes so if the same magic could happen again..

Wayne
07-14-2009, 06:50 PM
Yes a full character would cover retopping as well.


Wayne...