Smoothshaded view in ZBrush?
polycounter lvl 11
Yeah, I'm an idiot when it comes to ZBrush, but is it possible to view the model smoothshaded? I love ZBrush's materials and with to use them for making portfolio renders. :femme:
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Oh wow.
Frankly, i'm amazed how fast people can still complain even with some of the most advanced technology.
Give me the name of another app that can handle those amount of polys without too much slowdowns and in realtime.
If you really want this smooth look, go ahead buy some octo-core stations with your 64gb of ram, and enjoy your "utterly divided mesh smoothy-thing", cause that's the kind of power it would require to have a smooth shaded option with our hardware today.
Or simply go back to zb2 and enjoy your not so high BUT SMOOTHSHADEDTASTIC models.
Sorry people, anger time.
And smoothshaded view in Mudbox is not that sluggish.
srsly though... why would you want to use zb for low poly renders over one of the studio apps where you'd have way more control over everything, from lighting to materials and camera settings?
And for mudbox, i don't want to start a war but you can't honestly say it can handle THAT much polygons without becoming slow as hell. (unfortunately cause i would simply throw zbrush to bin)
I am not 'misunderstanding' ZBrush. Renders might be a 'big' word, just want to make screencaps of my models with a nice material applied.
that's why it is so fast, it doesn't even has perspective, and a lot of other features but you can do dozens of things you can't do in other apps...
As for use of the materials from ZBrush there is this tutorial that you might find interesting
http://norman3d.com/blog//?p=11
Even though he is demonstrating using it in Max it can be done in other apps with mental ray.
Anyway, it's pointless to try and present your low poly models in zbrush since the matcap materials are based off of facing angles. You'd do much better to find a nice shader for whatever 3d app you're using and going with that or use the method Popeye9 mentioned.
I wondered the same years ago, and knowing how harsh and abusive can be the ppl on forums (always with sad and horrible answers), i prefered not to say anything to avoid "Fanatics".
There aren't perfect programs, so Zbrush is not the exception. We live with its defects ^^ and we end loving them heh.
hum.. perspective, Zbrush is like 100% flat perspective. I have configured Max and Modo to view things without "perspective" too, totally flat, 100% cool. In that way, proportions errors when modelling are minimal if you model in "perspective view". It's something also very common when drawing, more if you don't work on a proper and angled table.
It´s not that, my zbrush crashes when I press Ctrl +S, and yes, you have to save your tool, not the document.
That probably has to do with saving and not having the topmost tool in the subtool list selected. One of the features in their subtool master plug in is to automatically go to the top of the subtool list on every save anyway -- probably connected.