Eat3d has new ZBrush offerings

r13 · Aug 2011

Eat3D has got a new tutorial available for your educational benefit. The topic is...

Tileable textures in Zbrush.This is a wee bit more than just using offset in PShop. Jump over to their site for the sights but if you need more convincing;

In this demonstration, Andy Davies goes over the creation of tileable textures within Zbrush 4.

He shows the techniques needed to efficiently create a realistic rubble pile by making a tileable ground mesh using Displacment maps and placing premade Polypainted assets whilst offsetting the canvas.

He then shows how to create and export the Diffuse, Displacement, Normal and Ambient Occlusion maps from within Zbrush, along with the final tileable rubble mesh for use within xNormal for an additional Ambient Occlusion bake and any other textures that may be required.

Check it out here: http://eat3d.com/free/zbrush_tile

[HP] · Aug 2011

So good!

This was a great watch, I gotta give this techniques a go soon.

A-N-P · Aug 2011

Just watched this at work on my lunch break. Super smashing magic stuff! End result looked awesome.

LATTEH · Aug 2011

couldnt ask for more! i was looking for something like this for awhile!

Maph · Aug 2011

Excellent tut! Loved every minute of it. Gonna have to try this asap now!

Fingus · Aug 2011

I've been using the canvas shifting technique for a while, but the trick with the displacement map was pretty clever! It always bothered me how zBrush irreversably drops the tools into 2D space so I can't get an editable 3D mesh out of it. But this technique is a good workaround. I'm a little surprised he didn't get into the Wrap Mode setting as that allows you to sculpt tiling patterns.