Is this possible?

ChrisLambert

Hello all,

I was wondering if this was possible: I want to create a nice wood sculpt in ZBrush, use that as a normal map, then paint the low poly in Painter... Is there a process where I can darken (or paint) the 'cracks, dings, crevasses' in Painter?

Maybe use the normal map to tell a generator where to paint?

Basically I was thinking about creating my own 'texture' in ZBrush then using Painter to paint colors - but unless I can get those details in the cracks and such, it might not look very good. And in turn, might be a waste of time doing all the details in ZBrush if I can't understand Painter aha.

I very new to Painter (and modelling in general) - but hopefully I used the correct words! 

Thanks for any help in advance!

Alex_J

All kinds of maps you can use to do this. Height map, curvature map, AO map... any grayscale map like this may be useful. Just bake em out and use them as mask for fill layers. 

ChrisLambert

Music to my ears Thanks!