free or cheap sculpting?

hawken

hi

does anyone know of a free or cheap program like zbrush thats gonna work with max 6?

I want to try out this normal-map modeling lark, and will get silo2 when it's out, but want something free to cheap in the meantime to sharpen my tools so to speak.

I did try z-brush once but it's arse-about-tit way of doing things kinda turned me off.

Mongrelman

You could try Sharpconstruct http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/522950/SharpConstruct.html

Or I beleive there is a test build of Blender with displacement painting.

Rick Stirling

If you buy Silo 1.4 now you get the beta of Silo 2.0.

Entity

agreed, silo is pretty cheap, and the new 2.0 beta is really good with sculpting

Joseph Silverman

Did the free upgrade offer for silo 1.4 -> 2.0 end, though? I don't see anything about it on the site anymore.

Mongrelman

I believe the offer still stands until 2.0 is officially released.

$109 buy now, $169 (?) after release.

Michael Knubben

159, if i'm not mistaken. If you really need to know, they mention it at the end of the silo2 promo video.
And i was pleasantly surprised to see them actually use the proper ratio from dollar to euro, instead of a 1:1, as i was expecting. yayhooray!

Eric Chadwick

If you;re really adverse to spending the dough, Max does have a paint-deform modelling system. It's kinda craptastic, but I think Max6 supports it. There's a script on scriptspot for it, I think called Adv Brush Painter or somesuch.

Psyk0

Meh the paint deform in max is ok for reshaping and pinching/relaxing but it's crap for detailing imho. Silo 2.0 is your best option.

hawken

OK thanks for the all the replies guys, I'm gonna go for silo

shape

There's a good video that a silo user made on it's sculpting tools. Not a detailed tutorial or anything, more of an overview of some of the features.

http://www.silo3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7635

I'm still in the spaz lumpy box sculpting stages with it, but in my limited use it's been really straight forward to use and very customisable. It's not as good for really superficial details like pores and wrinkles but fine for most stuff you'd want to bake out to normal maps.

Michael Knubben

Hawken, be sure you realise that the beta's not been released for mac just yet.
Both final versions will be released at the same time though, so no worries about that. Some people have said the next beta will be crossplatform, but wether that was blatant speculation of inside knowledge remains to be seen.

Mongrelman

Nevercenter said that they are currently putting a lot of effort into the mac version, so it should hopefully be out soon.