Texturing sculpted tree - ZBrush help

furys-death

Hey Guys, 

Below is a tree i've sculpted a high poly off. Now i'm just trying to find out a way to try and get some detail on the tree as well as texturing it at the same time. I've used spotlight and using zAdd and RGB to try and get a good effect but it still doesn't look correct. I've looked around for some ideas but can't really find a good workflow as i've not really done this stuff before. Any feedback or ideas would be greatly appreciated

The tree itself doesn't have  much detail in the way off the form, I thought i'd try and get that from the image in spotlight.  

furys-death

Got another image of the HP tree, tried to add some detail to it but still doesn't look right

Chase

Is that bottom image suppose to be the same as the textured one above it? It doesn't look like you have your ZADD enabled for your spotlight. That's why it's so flat. You could also try "mask by depth" or whatever it's called in the masking submenu. This is a good breakdown of how they created their scene http://www.cornucopia3d.com/classroom/article.php?id=209&from=makingofs. The tree bark part is about halfway down. Nothing new from what you're doing, but maybe it helps in some way.