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Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
The goal of this tutorial is to show how you can quickly create & edit a normal map without baking and without having to use Photoshop filters and gradient alone (which tend to give a volume-less, procedural, flat looking normal map). Some of you may know a lot of the basic's I am covering, but advanced game developers… -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
Nice tutorial! But, what about colour, AO and other maps? Can I change them this way too? And, sometimes existing unwrapping can no match with your goals. For instance, torso is divided into two UVs with different sculp, colour etc. But, you need the sculpt to be equal across the torso, to make it kinda single part. That… -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
This is very cool indeed. I would also have to agree with ceebee though! Also, how do you avoid seams at the borders? on a second note, you may be able to cut out a few steps by importing your lowpoly Uv'd mesh in to Zbrush, do "groups by UV", then using UV Master to create your flat layout. If you subdivide before… -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
Not gonna argue that. High-poly mesh wins for quality 100% of the time. This is definitely more for quick reskins of existing geo, such as base characters or a single jacket that needs a bunch of different patterns on the same mesh. Need to Frankenstein the shit out of an existing texture by putting a bunch of stitches on… -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
Ughhhhh. This is a cool technique but I wouldn't rely on it too much. Please don't do this if you have time to sculpt it on an actual high resolution mesh. If you don't have time then you should punch somebody square in the dick and tell them you need more time if you want any kind of quality to the art (and normals/AO) -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
that is some fancy stuff there. Really want to try this out hehe Thanks! -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
For those curious, this is a really great way to whip out quick outfit iterations for MMOs and other games that require costume changes or new skins on a single piece of geo. Basically, a really great production-ready hack that yields results fast. -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
Kinda have to agree, while it is 'cool', I don't see any benefits to it on animated models and such, seams, depth, stretching, warping of the tangents, padding and other issues will arise for alot of pieces, you might as well sculpt on the model itself, no? Not to mention, you need to download a specific Material for ZB… -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
Xavier is correct, this technique works best for mmo's or game development where you have to retexture a mesh for variations on a short schedule. Ceebee, u are absolutely right about having time to sculpt on a real mesh, but when time is an issue, which happens in tight development cycles, and your not a fan or painting… -
Re: Tutorial for Sculpting on UVs in Zbrush
Thanks for the feedback Ace, you do have some points, but i disagree on the speed at which you can create assets on a very, very short time budget. The Average character on my project takes about 12-18 days to create. Sometimes a producer will ask you to take the existing geometry and quickly do a completely new design in…
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