Other software that imports polypaint data?

nyx702

I typically use xnormal for baking the Polypaint from the high res onto the low res. I was wondering if there was any other 3d software out there that can import the vertex color from a Zbrush objs? I did some Googling and didn't see anything. It seems crazy that ONLY this free software can import the polypaint data....

passerby

max, maya, xsi, modo, blender, pretty much any feature complete 3d package, polypaint is nothing special it;s just vertex colour.

walter

Yes, but Max & Maya don't import Polypaint from ZBrush...

Ace-Angel

Yes they do, Polypaint is Vertex Colors.

r_fletch_r

3d coat can import vertex colour into voxels now.

nyx702

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Yes they do, Polypaint is Vertex Colors.

So... how to you view it and bake it down? I have looked all over.

3d coat can import vertex colour into voxels now.

That is awesome! I havn't used 3D coat in a while. I may go back to it if that is the case... I really liked it before.

Ace-Angel

Oh, you want to bake them, well other then 3DC and xNormal, I don't know how you would be able to bake V-Colors without jumping through hoops in other apps.

In the case of Max, you need to put up the Vexter Modifier, enable the material to support Vertex, and bake it out to another mesh, and it still might give issues.

cryrid

passerby wrote: »

max, maya, xsi, modo, blender, pretty much any feature complete 3d package, polypaint is nothing special it;s just vertex colour.

You should probably strike XSI off the list, unless there's a plugin I don't know about. I've imported a LOT of obj's from zbrush in the past, and not a single one has ever come in with any form of vertex color property : /

nyx702

Ace-Angel wrote: »

In the case of Max, you need to put up the Vexter Modifier, enable the material to support Vertex, and bake it out to another mesh, and it still might give issues.

I messed around with the Vertex color modifier but didn't mess with the material. Yuck. I think I will fiddle around with 3d coat... sigh....

Ace-Angel

Forgot to mention, unless you paint directly, I don't think you can 'preview' the vertex colors in Max when imported, you need to render it during...render time.

Yeah it's messy, might as well not support honestly

nyx702

Ok. I thought I was going insane. I still might be.

passerby

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Forgot to mention, unless you paint directly, I don't think you can 'preview' the vertex colors in Max when imported, you need to render it during...render time.

Yeah it's messy, might as well not support honestly

think it might be possible to preview it in viewport, iv used tension mod to do curveture and write it to vertex colour and it was able to be previewed in max.

Ace-Angel

Yep, anything happening inside Max is A-OK, anything outside of Max is imported A-NO-OK.

Don't know why honestly...

jacksena

Well according to me Zbrush and MAYA is the best software for import polypaint data list you can perform this task on your Mac which is well suitable for 3d or 2d work. For better suggestion take Mac OS Support.

r_fletch_r

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Yep, anything happening inside Max is A-OK, anything outside of Max is imported A-NO-OK.

Don't know why honestly...

its probably just in a different channel to the default. bring up the object properties and try changing it. If the data is in the mesh and can be rendered there is no reason the viewport wont be able to do it.