Zbrush MatCap BG_Horror

Erwin0265

Hey,
Would anyone be able to direct me to somewhere I can download the free matcap, BG_Horror?
I've found it mentioned in some threads here so it appears to be a fairly well known matcap.
Every site that has matcaps has no search engine for same so it's kind of difficult to find a specific matcap.
Any help would be appreciated.

musashidan

Here's the author's Zbrush Sketchbook(German ZB site) http://www.zbrush.de/page.php?modul=Forum&op=show_thread&tid=16472&searchstr=


The links to his matcaps(including BG_Horror) are dead but you might be able to contact him.

Erwin0265

Thanks for that, musashidan, you gave me somewhere from which to start searching.
I discovered that Bgen (Baldur Genge) has a different website now (http://www.genge.org) and so I contacted him via that site.
Hopefully his reply will be in the positive and he may also be willing to repost all of his MatCaps elsewhere that will last longer (Pixologic's website perhaps; Polycount doesn't have a repository for such things does it?).
Anyway, I will report back when I know some more (there's nothing worse than a thread where the OP gets what they want and never replies back to those that have given him/her assistence {very rude, in my humble opinion}).
Cheers
Erwin

musashidan

Good stuff mate. Strangely enough, when I see posts like this I enjoy taking the little challenge of hunting down the item in question. I don't have the matcap obsession that I once had but, yes, it would be great if you posted back any success you might have for posterity. It pissed me off too when posters don't bother their arse to bring their own threads to closure for the benefit of the community.

Erwin0265

OK; a bit more info; Baldur got back to me and sent me 4 MatCaps, including BG_Horror. I asked if it was OK to upload the MatCaps elsewhere (crediting him, of course) but he preferred to post them on his site himself (which is obviously fine; we only want to be able to access them; who posts them doesn't really matter).
I checked again today, but he hasn't posted them on his site yet (obviously busy).
However, here is his wesite url [http://www.genge.org/].
The site has a contact and he is quite approachable.
So if anyone is interested, I suggest to simply go to his site and contact him yourself. I'm sure if he gets 10 requests, he'll quickly post them on his site; if he only gets on - well, there's no hurry.
At least we have a more current contact for him and I'm happy to say that the BG_Horror MatCap is a great material for when you're sculpting from reference via use of image planes.

Erwin0265

Back again - talking to myself (I know - there's nothing to respond to).
Anyway, Baldur got back to me this evening and provided 2 links:

http://www.genge.org/2017/06/09/zbrush-matcaps/

or

https://gumroad.com/l/WctJe#

Hope they are of use to others.
Also, please remember to say thanks to Baldur for these classic and still free MatCaps..............

musashidan

Good man for checking back in and sharing the results of your quest.  

Erwin0265

I try my best to do as I say; I hope other noobies will benefit from these great MatCaps as I currently am............