What Z Brush Matcap Do You Prefer When Sculpting Environment Assets

TelekineticFrog

I was talking with a couple people this evening while I was working some on a personal art project in ZBrush that has me sculpting a lot of stone / concrete assets and the topic came up of preferences for matcaps. I mostly just use 99% of the time the default matcap gray but have a couple others I'll pull up that are pretty much the same thing but maybe just pick up edges with a lil more pronouncement.

Was curious though, what matcaps are people using for environment work in general? Any favorites?

ceebee

Red Wax

Ace-Angel

WhiteCavity and/or Basic, since most of the other material tend to disperse the cracks and such.

Joopson

fg_grey_metal (by someone else... Not sure who): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30185090/fg_grey_metal.ZMT

And one I made myself: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30185090/GrainyMonteCarlo.ZMT



fg_Grey is by far my favorite, though. It's beautiful, and is fairly accurate.

DrunkShaman

ceebee wrote: »

Red Wax

I did not know that people still use that!! xD

Matcap_Grey or skin shade4

WarrenM

Joopson

LOVE that grey metal, thanks!

Steve Schulze

Matcap White Cavity for all your sculpting needs.

That metal shader looks nice, but I'm not sure I'd use it while I was scultping.

Mask_Salesman

I think its best not to get stuck on one matcap alone, altho gray is a majority default. switching to different detail depth and light orientated matcaps can show bits you've missed out or need to work on. Some more extreme cavity based ones are good for checking areas altho at the same time to use as a default may not always be an accurate representation of normal height, being that they often amplify the detail.

BoBo_the_seal

cross post from your Facebook post:

RS Grey Resin for the block. I switch for other stages like polypainting and presentation. I try to stay consistent with the material I use while sculpting so that I can guarantee that I get consistency across my sculpts. Some materials have deep or shallow cavity detail that will translate into digging too much into the sculpt or not enough.

- BoBo

arshlevon

we try not use mat caps at all, as they incorrectly represent any depth or detail information in your sculpt. the cavity materials exaggerate detail and your normal maps will suffer and seem flat compared to your sculpt. we only use basic materials for sculpting as its the closest representation of the final product. in the end you don't want something that is going to make your work seem better in a an application nobody is going to see it in besides your team, you want to work on model that looks as close as possible to the final product.

Mcejn

BoBo_the_seal wrote: »

cross post from your Facebook post:

RS Grey Resin for the block. I switch for other stages like polypainting and presentation. I try to stay consistent with the material I use while sculpting so that I can guarantee that I get consistency across my sculpts. Some materials have deep or shallow cavity detail that will translate into digging too much into the sculpt or not enough.

- BoBo

Where can one find that Matcap? I've tried searching past threads and Pixologics matcap library to no avail.

BoBo_the_seal

Look up Ralf Stumpf matcaps. He has several good ones.

- BoBo

Snefer

I try to use the gray default one, it gives the best preview of what the normals will actually result in.

Ace-Angel

Just to be clear, when you guys say Grey/Gray you mean the BasicMat, right? Not BumpView...

Snefer

Yup. I have no interest of making a "pretty" sculpt and fool myself : D The results are what matters ^^