Zmapper in new zbrush?

NAIMA

Hello , I premise I am a total noob and trying it now Zbrush , was making some tutorials but when it comes to making normal maps they all refer to a zmapper thing that I cant find in the tools , how I am supposed to do this and why they put tutorials that are fake with wrong referencing to the program?

Is there a serious tutorial on how to make a normal map in a most recent version of zbrush? thanks for help .....

cryrid

Zmapper is the old method, it has been removed and replaced in newer versions (3.5). Chances are your tutorials are just outdated. Their official documentation has the process covered.
New way: http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Creating_Normal_Maps
Regarding it's removal: https://support.pixologic.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=39

NAIMA

I have read this but the normal map cmes ut all bland and nothing good , twith the previous thing I tried one I remember where coming along nicely and much better , why have they worstened it so much ? how is supposed now to make a normal map?

cryrid

Post examples, or try xnormal?

mastershokhan

take the zbrush normal map and enhance it in crazybump

CheeseOnToast

No offense mastershokhan, but "enhancing it in crazybump" is not practical or even possible if the inital map is no good. It's good for adding additional fine detail if that's what you mean, but not for fixing a bad high>low baked normal.

vcool

What if you can bake a heightmap?

then you can make a good normal map in CB?

Ruz

the new zbrush map baking is crap. The way it projects does not work properly ie it doesn't take in to account skewed uv's
The normal maps it pumps out are so clean, it seems as though the edges are just being ignored, that's why there are visible seams which you can't fix
Hopefully I am wrong on this but I really wish they would bring back zmapper
The new stuff is fine for testing stuff quickly however