So if there is something in the meantime please let me know. The answer would be of course if ZBrush would add the SL required format to their choices of saving. BTW I do not use blender I only got it in order to try and get my ZBrush model into SL. So if anyone out there knows of a better way to get ZBrush mesh into SL, in one piece and looking like it is supposed to then please tell me. Back when we were testing Beta Mesh, I managed to upload a statue but I had to first save it in obj format then take the obj into blender save it again in the format SL required, in the process the maps ended up distorted and were virtually useless. I have created many cool things that I woild love to get into SL, but the problem is that I have never found a really good direct way to do that effectively. I absoluely love it, although it is far more complex then the original was it is getting more and more awesome both in terms of what it can do and the ease of using it. I was one of the first to get ZBrush when it first came out and I have been getting regular updates to the program ever since.
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But, you can download a free plugin that let's you export.
It does have retopology tools, but I don't recommend bothering to use them. A 3D suite will also come in handy for retopologizing the models you export from Zbrush. You'll need to use a companion program, such as Blender or Maya, with it if you want to skin/rig clothing and avatars. The UI was designed around using graphics tablets, so you'll find it much easier to navigate if you have one. It is a feature rich program and some people do find the UI hard to get used to. But, you can use it in a game content workflow with the help of retopology and map baking. It is designed for extremely high poly work. I'd highly recommend it for anyone that likes a high to low poly workflow and that likes sculpting (I mean traditional sculpting not SL sculpt maps).
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Retopologizing is yet another skill to be learned as well as understanding how displacement, vector and normal maps are used and how to export them out of Zbrush into a compatible form that your 3d program will accept. And if you are not committing these forms directly into 2d images within Zbrush you need to drastically reduce their poly count by retopologizing into a simpler form. The focus of these products is to allow you to create a very dense model polygon-wise from which you can create your models in a more traditionally artistic fashion, as if you were working in a clay medium. A free sculpting program that is pretty decent is Sculptris and you can get that from the Pixologic web site (creators of Zbrush). These are both primarily sculpting programs. It doesn't export collada files natively, but there is a free plug-in created by Marcus Civis on the Zbrush Central forum which allows you to export your model as a collada for SL.Ī competitor to Zbrush is Autodesk's Mudbox. One would generally purchase this product in addition to a 3d modeling/animation package. I love the program and I find it useful, but I wouldn't put it in the catagory of easy to use or a substitute for a good 3d modeling program like Blender, 3dmax, C4D, Maya, etc. I've spent couple of years using it, mostly for sculpty work, and I'm still very much a Zbrush beginner.
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I suggest you download the free trial and check it out yourself.
Zbrush is a very feature rich complex program. I use blender 2.63 and managed to learn its tools and become friendly with it, despite the horrendous learning curve, so if Zbrush is a bit easier to learn then blender, I should be able to pick it up. Tell me anything you know about this I liked what I saw of the programme but I'm still a bit fresh on mesh creation. What were you opinions of it? Is it reletively easy to use? Are the tools goods, limited, too advanced? What about formats: can you easily save the mesh files in a way that SL supports its download? I've been thinking of givng this a try to see how it can help with maiking MESH clothes for SL, but first I want to get an idea of things: how many of you have seen this programme and how many have tried it? From what I could see in the tutorial, it can do some very neat stuff, taking pictures, slaping them onto a model, and from what I could tell, almost painting onto the model to automatically create a mesh. The uploader was not english, but I managed to fortunately find out the name of the programme as Zbrush. I was surfing youtube for videos on modeling mesh, and while looking at some Blenderella videos, I found a modeling "tutorial" showcasing a programme I'd never seen before:
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