Vertex Painting in Blender and ZBrush?

melviso

For artists who use vertex painting and have tried Blender and ZBrush. I will like to know your opinion on the two. I am currently using Blender but I am finding painting medium to small details problematic in Blender. I have seen polypaint zbrush videos on youtube. With ZBrush, you can sculpt lots of tiny details and vertex painting with no lags. Blender seems to have issues on the high resolution side since you need a lot of subdivision to have good resolution for vertex painting. I am using the pbvh branch of Blender. The vertex painting is fine but once you move to edit mode or the wireframes are displayed in viewport. The lag makes it problematic to move around.
Opinions?

melviso

No worries. Found a workaround for using in Blender

Stromberg90

Mind sharing the workaround?, in case someone else has a problem

melviso

Avoid going to edit mode, Use only the vertex paint and object mode, since the display of the high res wireframe will cause the viewport to lag or hang. I really wish Blender viewport could handle high res geometry without problems, leaving the edit mode after subdividing the mesh as much as required is also a drag as well.

FourtyNights

Yeah, Blender's vertex paint tool is laggy when used on very high poly models, which is kinda useless for "polypainting" inside Blender. ZBrush is naturally a technical wonder to handle that with an ease.

melviso

Yep and I am thinking ZBrush handles this well because of the 2.5d architecture? Blender has a pbvh branch but it needs a lot of tweaking and it's not quite there yet. From the videos of polypainting in ZBrush, it's quite a breeze.