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1. 3DS Max / ZBrush Workflow Tutorial / Critique

   

   Topic by iamtravis316 · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Here is a little tutorial/guide I worked up on my workflow of using 3DS Max 2011 and ZBrush 4. This is for people that are newer to ZBrush. I am also looking for some critique/suggestions on my workflow as well. I'm always looking to improve the way I'm doing things. I just used a simple model for this so I'm not looking…

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   Reply by iamtravis316 · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Thanks I'm glad yall liked it, I've found that I generally get good AO maps with mental ray, but the next thing I make I'm definitely going to try xNormal now and see If I can get some better results with that. Generally I will put more detail in the model before I take it to zbrush, if I take it into Zbrush, But I've…

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   Reply by RictusGrin · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Nice walkthrough Travis!

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   Reply by Dylan Brady · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Agree, Your zbrush work seems like it would be fairly simple to do in Sub-D and would be more optimal polygon wise (thus decreasing render times) but certainly, if your doing things like damage. or organics of any kind I can see this going alot faster than trying to box-model it out in MAX. Just depends on what your trying…

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   Reply by JobyeK · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   MR's AO is decent, but xNormal's AO > MR's AO.

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   Reply by Jeff Parrott · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Seems like a solid workflow. It seems like it would be faster for hard surface it would be faster to stay in Max. But you said for newer people to ZBrush. Still gets the point across. Just seems like it would be more beneficial to do something that relies on more sculpting in ZBrush. Good stuff, thanks for sharing your…

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   Reply by PogoP · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   I've always found Mental Ray AO to look really nice!

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   Reply by [HP] · Aug 2011 · Home› Technical Talk

   Looks like a pretty decent workflow to me. I just wouldn't use MR to render out AO if I were you, MR literally sucks at that, from my experience.