WIP - The Ultimate ZBrush Plugin!

MikeDunnam

This plugin will go into beta in a few weeks. I just wanted to show a preview of it.

You can even be part of the naming of the plugin! I am hold a sort of contest for naming on my private facebook group for XMD members. I will be taking suggestions up until Beta is released. Or until I think of a good name for it. If your name suggestion is chosen, you will be in the credits page 

The only way to grab beta access to the plugin is to join the XMD Life-Time Membership! Plus, once you are a member, the plugin is yours free once it is released! Right now you can grab the Life-Time Membership for only $20!

https://gum.co/xmdlifetime/plug20

Here are some of the features. Some features may or may not be in the initial release.

• Brush Organization features (Filters, Categories and Tags)
• A dropdown with all of the XMD brush sets to easily filter them.
• Search functionality
• Cloning Brushes for editing while retaining all settings
• A favorites collapsible bar
• Auto loading of brushes & icons (add folders to load)
• All XMD brush releases will be automatically loaded through the updates menu!
• Monthly features added!
• Full Screen Mode for multiple monitor users!
• This will be a sort of swiss army knife for ZBrush
• Mac OS version will be available later. (it is on the roadmap)
• No more brush quantity cap. It can load unlimited brushes!
• This plugin will become an essential part of ZBrush.
• It is collapsible down to the favorites tab!
• So many more features to be trickled out monthly!
• Preloaded with all 800+ XMD Brushes! 
• So much more!

Hope you enjoy!
Michael

pmiller001

UGH, i cant wait! That lifetime membership was one of the best purchases I've ever made. 

MikeDunnam

pmiller001 said:

UGH, i cant wait! That lifetime membership was one of the best purchases I've ever made. 

Thanks Paul!

Torch

Oooo.....ah do de-clayre.... looks interesting

Johnnynapalmsc

This looks great, awesome idea

Sunray

• All XMD brush releases will be automatically loaded through the updates menu!  

O yes awesome.

klown

Oh nice!, I was going to message you about requesting some sort of preview for all the brushes and here you post this, great stuff

MikeDunnam

klown said:

Oh nice!, I was going to message you about requesting some sort of preview for all the brushes and here you post this, great stuff

I started this http://michaeldunnam.com/xmd-catalog/ but I haven't finished it. It takes so long to do it lol.

MikeDunnam

This is the edit brush window. You will be able to edit a brush on the fly with a rollout for each brush setting. It will be organized much better than the menus in zbrush

Noise Factory, Icon Factory and Laboratory will be explained later

dzibarik

Hey, I have bought life-time membership back in December but can't find this plugin in the list on Gumroad page. Is it there or is there a separate download somewhere?

OccultMonk

looks great, does this work for all Zbrush brushes or only XMD? What about thumbnail generation?
Maybe not really important, but can you make a natural tone version too? Just gray instead of red?

Elithenia

Looking forward to the release of this. Looks awesome!

MikeDunnam

dzibarik said:

Hey, I have bought life-time membership back in December but can't find this plugin in the list on Gumroad page. Is it there or is there a separate download somewhere?

It hasn't been released yet. This is just a preview. It will go into closed beta for XMD members in a few weeks.

MikeDunnam

OccultMonk said:

looks great, does this work for all Zbrush brushes or only XMD? What about thumbnail generation?
Maybe not really important, but can you make a natural tone version too? Just gray instead of red?

You will be able to load any brush into it. You will be able to set folders to autoload brushes or install them individually. It will come preloaded with ask XMD brushes. As for colors there will be several UI color schemes including a gray one that matches the default zbrush ui.

OccultMonk

Will you include a way to create consistent thumbnails for other ZBrush brushes? Maybe a macro/script for zbrush?

MikeDunnam

OccultMonk said

Will you include a way to create consistent thumbnails for other ZBrush brushes? Maybe a macro/script for zbrush?

There will be an icon creator. At the moment I am not sure if it will be in the initial release. However by default it will load whatever icon is associated with a loaded brush.

OccultMonk

It would be nice if it also supported 32 bit alphas. Brushes and alphas are the most important for sculpting. It's not practical to create a brush for every alpha. Zbrush Lightbox does not work well for large alpha libraries with many folders/categories. Having both Brushes and alphas in one place would be logical and make this tool even better. 

MikeDunnam

OccultMonk said:

It would be nice if it also supported 32 bit alphas. Brushes and alphas are the most important for sculpting. It's not practical to create a brush for every alpha. Zbrush Lightbox does not work well for large alpha libraries with many folders/categories. Having both Brushes and alphas in one place would be logical and make this tool even better. 

It will most definitely support 32 bit alphas we are looking into an alpha library feature as well. They are a little more complex.

Elithenia

Will it have different colour schemes? or a customisation?

MikeDunnam

Elithenia said:

Will it have different colour schemes? or a customisation?

Yes. It will have several color schemes

essimoon

Oh my god, this sounds too good to be true! 

OccultMonk

MikeDunnam said:

OccultMonk said:

It would be nice if it also supported 32 bit alphas. Brushes and alphas are the most important for sculpting. It's not practical to create a brush for every alpha. Zbrush Lightbox does not work well for large alpha libraries with many folders/categories. Having both Brushes and alphas in one place would be logical and make this tool even better. 

It will most definitely support 32 bit alphas we are looking into an alpha library feature as well. They are a little more complex.

An image browser for alphas with Zbrush integration would be great!

Why are alphas more complex? They are just 32 bit .PSD images most of the time. I would think that brushes would be more complex than alpha images. 

MikeDunnam

OccultMonk said:

MikeDunnam said:

OccultMonk said:

It would be nice if it also supported 32 bit alphas. Brushes and alphas are the most important for sculpting. It's not practical to create a brush for every alpha. Zbrush Lightbox does not work well for large alpha libraries with many folders/categories. Having both Brushes and alphas in one place would be logical and make this tool even better. 

It will most definitely support 32 bit alphas we are looking into an alpha library feature as well. They are a little more complex.

An image browser for alphas with Zbrush integration would be great!

Why are alphas more complex? They are just 32 bit .PSD images most of the time. I would think that brushes would be more complex than alpha images. 

I would have liked the be able to read all of the alphas out of the brushes as well, but that doesn't seem possible at the moment. They are going to be less complex without that. 

OccultMonk

I do not mean the alphas from the brushes. Just alpha images in general. An image alpha browser for 32 bit .PSD that is integrated with Zbrush (to easily load multiple alphas) would work a lot better than the current integrated bar. I would think that would not be more difficult because it's just an image browser with Zbrush integration to load the images as alphas.

Kyetja

Oh boy oh boy, this might be the final straw, I need to buy this, looks promising!

pixelpatron

Got a vid to demo this in action for us on the fence shoppers?

MikeDunnam

pixelpatron said:

Got a vid to demo this in action for us on the fence shoppers?

Not yet. The UI is being pieced together at the moment. I will have videos right before it goes into beta. Should be next week.

musashidan

This looks fantastic! Shame I'm having such problems trying to grab the LT membership. Gumroad can be an arse like that sometimes. I've had many emails from people trying to purchase off my own GR page and they just couldn't do it. I'll keep trying.