An Even better soft than ZB & mudbox for NormMap?

kakikukeko

Hi, I haven't tried it yet, but this soft seems interesting:
3d Brush (and not this , which looks quite cool too - but more useless for us ) now called 3D coat .. basically after 5 millions poly, it uses a normal map instead of splitting polygons...

now I'm no specialist, but wouldn't it be possible to make a software that would allow us to work on our low poly model with a UVmap, use the same toolset as in zbrush or mudbox, but actually always working on a low poly model, all the brush strokes would only affect the normal map... that way , we wouldn't need the transfert from high to low poly .. it would be completely wysiwyg .. ?

Neox

Well at least you can draw details in zbrush just into the bumpmap, you don't have to subdivide your mesh for really fine details.

Snowfly

thanks for posting this. it's demo time!

rooster

someone posted this a while back and i hated the demo.. but maybe its improved since then. great idea

kakikukeko

Arg couldn't follow the topic, I've been busy setting up my new computer..

Per> you say it has been done? do you know such a software that could be downloaded somewhere?? I'm pretty curious..
I guess it may not be that intuitive, but It should pretty worthy, once used to it..

rooster

youd have the crappy vert smoothing showing through wouldnt you, unless you're a machine god and can hand-correct it