Is zbrush right for this job?

somawheels

Hi, 
I have never used zbrush before, and need to know if it can meet this requirement.
Can it render transparent, overlapping texture cutout cards/planes to a texture? (including normal map, specular etc).
I.E If I wanted to make a hair texture: could i place poly planes - each with transparent hair texture applied - and render that arrangement of textured hair planes to one 2d texture?

Thanks

Eric Chadwick

Not really, no. It doesn't have texture assignment in materials, like other 3d apps do. You need to paint (or project) onto the hair planes in Zbrush. More work than it's worth IMHO.