Pore details - sculpting or texture?

SuperFranky · Nov 2014

Does anybody have experience with these two methods of creating pore details for skin? Which method is the fastest and yuilds the best results? Sculpting in Zbrush is nice, but you have to be aware of polygon restrictions and details can be lost in the baking process. Paining pore texture in Photoshop and converting it into a normal map seems like a good way to get good crisp details, but I can imagine it being a bit unintuitive and if UVs aren't perfect it cage get bad results.

What do you think?

AshuraDX · Nov 2014

I'd paint the pores using the 3d functions in photoshop to paint my bump map direclty on the model - or do the same in mudbox or Substance painter
Zbrush should be capable of doing that aswell

just paint it in 3d to avoid UV issues, then export and convert the painted bump map to a normal map

SuperFranky · Nov 2014

Ok, I looked into painting bump map in Zbrush and it looks good. But to use that I would need a set of finished UVs for my model, right? Can I just bake down those details to low poly?

JohnnyRaptor · Nov 2014

I believe he means 3D paint the pores on your lowres, uv mapped mesh. That way you avoid getting distortions due to your unwrap.

also, if you want to paint in zbrush, you dont need UVs, but you would have to paint it on your highres mesh, export the highres with the polypaint, and then use something like xnormal to transfer the colour to your unwrapped lowpoly mesh.

SuperFranky · Nov 2014

Thanks for suggestions, guys, I'll try it all

jfitch · Nov 2014

You may not still be looking for an answer on this but I'd say model it into your high res and use a repeating pore texture as well.

SuperFranky · Nov 2014

jfitch wrote: »

You may not still be looking for an answer on this but I'd say model it into your high res and use a repeating pore texture as well.

Thanks for the suggestion, maybe I'll give it a shot

Pore details - sculpting or texture?

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