zbrush 4R6 now with magic retopo

arshlevon

looks pretty cool, you can do this without guides and it just looks nice, really amazing
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?178984

wizo

....dat button, we've all been waiting for it!

this calls for celebration : )

oXYnary

Will 4.6 be the final before 5.0? Cmon 64bit!

bounchfx

guh!! nice!

Do we know if 5 will be a free upgrade like everything has been so far? Part of me is afraid they may charge for it since it'll be a big release. Any Pixologic peeps lurking?

wizo

seriously giving amazing low topo results, in seconds. so happy right now!
bounchfx, they will charge more (+100 dollars) after the month of july, sounds like it is a good time to buy it.

Kevin Albers

Wow, that remeshing does look great! Yay.

Ruz

wow looks awesome. the low topo stuff , just great

Tenshi

Zbrush: $795 per license.
Mudbox: $795

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Iyo

3D scanner + Zremesher + Ddo...*shudders*

Joe March

Cautiously... optimistic..

Swizzle

I tried out the retopo on a couple of different models with wacky shapes. This shit is unbelievable.

Black magic craziness. I can't believe it works.

Makkon

ADKFHLASDJHAGWLALIUCFHADBVHALG

What have I been doing wasting all of my money on Maya?! PISS

s6

That shit is tits. I really need to upgrade Zbrush. Was on the fence, Till I read swizzles post.

explodingseashells

Can more folks post and let us know how it works? how good is it?

dtschultz

That's awesome! I can't wait to give this a shot.

Swizzle

Just tested it out:

Dan!

set the target polys to 2 and hit go, no guidance

Swizzle

Seems to handle low-frequency shapes very well, medium-frequency shapes alright, and high-frequency shapes badly, at least without guides or polypaint weighting.

I'm actually super impressed with how it handled the hand topology.

Swizzle

...Fuck.

s6

Obviously it would need a bit of refinement, But I'm curious, Just how badly is the belt area mangled? Is it close enough to go in a Vert by Vert package and do a bit of cutting and welding? or is it just demolished in there? the close up looks manageable, But that zoomed out shot, There is a really dense spot there on his left hip.

And did that character have lips?

Thanks for posting examples.

Edit: Ninja'd

Fuck good, Or Fuck bad? It looks decent...right?

moose

dag! came out awesome with those curve guides.

I tested it out on a few dumb bricks and it worked well. Also tried it to re-topo a base subdiv and reconstruct with mixed results. Was getting strange holes & "pockets" that wouldn't reconstruct.

Dont' have any images to show, but doing a side-by-side compare of a 1k zremesh vs a 1k decimate mesh for quick-low poly meshes was night and day. Decimate had slightly better form but much worse geo.

cooolll

RogelioD

This is absolute devil voodoo magic level stuff. Unbelievable. Unreal.

arshlevon

This is why I said magic in the title, I have done multiple test, amazed at every one. With the guides it makes even more incredible.

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Entity

Thank you Pixologic based god!

uncle

Wow, it actually works. Impressed.

leslievdb

great, just in time for me to try it out on a new model

TeZzy

Mother of god......this is such a lovely update.

Just the other day I was wondering when there would be an announcement and BAM! we get this little gem today.

EmAr

Can't wait to get a ZBrush license again, wow!

Nemlet17

This brings tears to my eyes. Just think, we can all go outside for an extra hour thanks to these guys.

danpaz3d

I'd like to know who or what team put together the algorithm for this. Truly spectacular stuff. Huge congrats to Pixologic.

Mask_Salesman

Shit the bed... Even as a starting point for refining that's fantastic.

Am gonna test this biz out straight away!

cryrid

danpaz3d wrote: »

I'd like to know who or what team put together the algorithm for this. Truly spectacular stuff. Huge congrats to Pixologic.

My guess is Verold had a hand in it since it replaces qremesher (which previously had a 'detect curves' button that always asked for the full version, which several people were confused about).

I'm surprised and happy it works this well.

Fomori

Looks great. Real time saver.

I'm curious to find out how it handles conversion to lower poly meshes than you guys have shown. Say a 3k triangle character model. Hopefully will be trying it out over the next few days.

Equanim

Has anyone tried sort of iterating down to avoid tangling? E.g. simplifying a high poly mesh into a slightly less high poly, and repeating until you get down to a desired level?

WarrenM

I made a random mesh and it messed up a little ... I added a few guides and it came out perfectly. This looks so ridiculously good I expect to be waking up any moment now.

Torch

Haven't had a chance to try it yet but looks awesome - so its like a really souped up version of Qremesher? Looks like a huge timesaver!

WarrenM

It's what you hoped QRemesher would be.

Ruz

wowo, just amazing. a big f*** off to reptopology:)

tottot

Anyone else have trouble installing this update? I dont have a floating license (which they said wont be available for another week), and yet zbrush 4r5 still doesnt recognize that there is an update?

BlvdNights

Cautiously optimistic but so far all the results I've seen are pretty stunning.

Jeff Parrott

So far I haven't hit any issues with it. Pretty impressive Hogwarts type stuff going on. Reminds me how cool math can actually be.

cryrid

Just a quick test on the Earthquake model (no guides or messing with the settings):

Jesse Moody

So could this possibly be used for LODs?

ablaine

What's the minimum amount of tris (in thousands) that you can select as a target tricount? How does it work for target tricounts under 6k or so?

WarrenM

I was stripping models down to 250 polys and it was still working. Lowest seems to be 100 ...

NyneDown

Jesse Moody wrote: »

So could this possibly be used for LODs?

That's exactly what crossed my mind. Seems almost too good to be true.

Ace-Angel

Jesse Moody wrote: »

So could this possibly be used for LODs?

If they're all Quads, yes.

TheWildHunt

This...

"Magic, motha fucka"

Kbrom12

This looks great I'll have to give it a shot but to be honestly I see nothing new I haven't already been doing in 3d-coat. That could change though once I experience it for myself.