Minami's 3D Stuff Thread

Minami

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25 Jan 2011 at 20:22 - 41

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Originally Posted by Charlie Dayman

What's it like to actually sort of create shapes? I'm only really familiar with the vertice (sp?) method with a bunch of points that map out shapes. Does this program go about it a different way? Well, it's exactly like sculpting clay. ^_^

You can set up a basic shape from things called ZSpheres, detail it a bit more with ZSketch, then convert it to a shape you can sculpt on (called polymesh), and sculpt away!

ZSpheres are like a wire base for clay sculptures, except a lot more versatile

If you model your "clay" over the ZSpheres, you can then later move the ZSpheres with the model already on it, which is exactly like a rigged model.

Let me take a few screenshots for you, where I just sculpt some eyeholes, a nose and a mouth into a ball.

Minami

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25 Jan 2011 at 20:38 - 42

So on this pic, you can see that I did a super primitive rockface-thing

It started out as a 3D ball (sphere), I raised and depressed the "clay".
It's a 3D model, it renders what you're doing WHILE you're doing it, as a preview render.
If I wanted to, I could export this as an .obj file, and (or use the bridge to) open it up in any 3D modeling program and work with it.

So yep, ZBrush is practically a virtual clay sculpting program, with so much more to it than just that. ^_^

(/gushing over)

Charlie Dayman

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26 Jan 2011 at 04:23 - 43

Gah, that's awesome! I was hoping it was something more like a sculpting program than really sort of programming thousands of little points. Have you tried doing texture maps onto the surfaces?

I'm definitely going to be picking this program up later.

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26 Jan 2011 at 04:53 - 44

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Originally Posted by Charlie Dayman View Post

Mhmm, you can paint the textures right onto the model

Or, there is this thing called the spotlight, it looks as if you were shining a spotlight onto your model, and where you press the button, it puts the texture onto the model.
Sounds a bit weird, but that's what the tutorials are for ^_^
After you've painted the textures onto the model, you can extract the UV map with the main texture, displacement map, etc.

IT'S AWESOME.

Let me know if you need help, and if you find some awesomesauce tutorials, pls let me know

It seems like one can't have enough tutorials on this program. So many things to learn! O_O
Oh and if you need any tutorial links, let me know ^_^

EDIT: BTW, I was thinking about modeling Lyssa from this concept... I can't see the twin-part in this pic, but I think it's a really pretty picture to just try and model ^_^

EDIT2: Or maybe this guy... O_O