Novice question ZBrush photo painting

onera

Hello community!

Yesterday, I've started learning 3D modeling. I've picked ZBrush as my choice.

Here is my struggle.

>MakeHuman import
>Import photo of head or body.
>After start painting the photo on the model it becomes blurry, not as sharp as the photo reference.

My first guess would be that I have to do the UV first, but I still haven't started learning them, would love to confirm if that's the issue so I don't waste a lot of time.

Any thoughts?

http://i.imgur.com/3mXZ6I3.png

That's the result, really unpleasing.

ChaosWWW

You need uvs. Are you using a texture map or is this polypaint? If it's a texture map, first create auto-uvs in zbrush (it's very easy, you press one button), then up the resolution of your texture to 4096 or higher. If it's polypaint, use a texture map instead.

onera

@ChaosWWW Thanks for the reply!

So that auto-uv has some downsides?
You can tell me the button for auto-uv? Because there's few abbreviations and not sure which one have to use.

DireWolf

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOoOh5s8RE4[/ame]

Anything automatic won't be as optimized as what artist can do. But that's nothing to worry about at this stage really.

onera

Thanks! Can't wait to try it!