Tutorial: Zbush Tiling Textures_Overlap Sculpt Workflow

A Vitale

Hello Polycount,
After we posted our art dump we had a lot of requests for info about our sculpting process.
I just finished a tutorial outlining the workflow I put in place. Hope you guys find this useful.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bepQk_GHAY4[/ame]

leleuxart

Awesome, thanks a lot!

Karmageddon

Thanks for posting, this is pretty cool

Villain

Thanks. I'm so going to use this.

Villain

Is there any chance you can show us where you got the 3 tools you used in zbrush for the edge crinkling?

A Vitale

Villain wrote: »

Is there any chance you can show us where you got the 3 tools you used in zbrush for the edge crinkling?

I made the frame and sculpt plane in Maya the character is from Zbrush.

TheWalkerGod

woah, cool. I've been looking at tiling texture workflows and i'm definetly going to try this out. How'd you come up with this anyway?

anglorum

Very good! Excited to give this a shot on my next project. People finding work arounds to get zbrush as a more expedient environment sculpting tool makes me come down with a case of the vapors.

anglorum

A question though! The import and export process from zbrush and maya sort of confuses me. So it looks like you have your template bricks exported out of maya as an obj, and a subtool. How exactly do they remember their sub divisions as an obj when you bring them back in? It seems like when you bring your pattern in, they should've lost their sub divisions, but they're still there somehow. I don't really get how that works... is it something to do with the subtool names not changing?

Sage

Awesome work. Thanks for sharing your workflow.

BARDLER

Wow that is super smart. Can't wait to give this a shot.

mettigel

The Sculpting would be interessting too. I see some kind of "Special Edition" Trim Dynamic there ? what are you using for the nice little Details ?
Greetings

_Kratos_

Cool stuff guys!

TrevorJ

ahh, thanks man! going to watch this tonight

JamieRIOT

Very cool.
I haven't used clusters in Maya before. It looks like the benefits of using them in this way, is that the meshes keep the transformations for tiling, right? I was trying to figure out if this was much superior to sculpting 5 bricks and duplicating around in Maya instead.
Also, this may sound dumb, but at the end of the video you were importing the different pattern layouts into Zbrush. How come you were stepping down to subdivision 4 each time, was that an essential thing to do?
Thanks for the video, it's great to see new, smart ways to speed up production!

PogoP

One thing I'm not sure is, how does Zbrush know that your edge bricks should be the tiling ones? I don't know if I just missed that part of the video.

A Vitale

anglorum wrote: »

A question though! The import and export process from zbrush and maya sort of confuses me. So it looks like you have your template bricks exported out of maya as an obj, and a subtool. How exactly do they remember their sub divisions as an obj when you bring them back in? It seems like when you bring your pattern in, they should've lost their sub divisions, but they're still there somehow. I don't really get how that works... is it something to do with the subtool names not changing?

The overlap workflow is just like blend shapes for characters. The overlap.obj and the pattern.obj are the same mesh/point order, but the vertices have different positions. In zbrush when I drop to subd 4 and import the pattern zbrush knows its the same mesh and loads in the new vertex positions. That's why it retains all the sculpting info.

If you want to note the subd level you exported with add it to the obj name.
test_sculpt_overlap_subd_4.obj
test_sculpt_pattern_a_subd_4.obj
test_sculpt_pattern_b_subd_4.obj

anglorum

Wow! Thanks so much for the clarification. I'm gonna definitely have to give all of this a shot.

doomprodigy

Sweet workflow, definitely a few things I can work into my current one. Thanks!

Clark Coots

Great tutorial and smart workflow, I absolutely love stuff like this. I noticed in Maya after you imported the lvl 4 subdivision you were working around 350K tris in Maya. You should be able to export any level subdivision as long as the silhouette is close to your high poly right? Just for any lower end computers out there that don't want Maya chugging.

You also briefly mentioned polypaint, for The Order did you polypaint your bricks and export a diffuse? Will the polypaint be applied to new patterns when you import them?

xvampire

love the instances technique !

A Vitale

Hello All,
After I released my Overlap Sculpt Workflow I received requests to demonstrate how I created the sculpt setup. Here you go!

Sculpt Setup:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC7LESzFHAk[/ame]

Bobby J Rice 3rd

Supurb Videos.

DanielPeres

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