Exporting Polypaint?

DInusty

so i wanted to bake my mapes like normals, height map. and base diffuse from max or xnormal. i can get the normals and the height map just fine but i cant seem to figure out where to get the polypaint info to come along with the export of the model.

can it only be baked out from within zbrush?

also thanks in advance and sorry if this question has been answered before on this sick ass location we all know and love as polycount

DInusty

was figured out from a user on GA if any one is interested in the answer this is it

http://eat3d.com/free_zbrush_xnormal_pipe

cryrid

Polypaint exports automatically with zbrush objs, and xnormal supports them. Just load the highpoly into it and under 'maps to render' check 'bake highpoly's vertex colors'

DInusty

when i do it that way i end up with a black texture. maybe its not exporting the polypaint with the obj? is there a way of turning that on and off?

DInusty

Doh! nm it looks like the ignor per vertex color was turned off. thanks its is much faster and easier then the video.

cryrid

I think it is on automatically in 3.5r3 and 4.

In xnormal, on the highdef mesh options, perhaps 'ignore per-vertex-color' needs to be unchecked as I unchecked it before testing it just now.

Edit: too slow

ScoobyDoofus

I've been using auto-unwrapping and large source map sizes in Zbrush prior to exporting in order to move my polypainting over to textures as I'd had a hiccup or two trying to use the vert colors + xnormal...I'll have to give that a shot again with my next project! Maybe I was just doing the same thing...leaving some checkbox checked or unchecked. Basically, I was probably doing it wrong, as usual.