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actually i dont want to load zbp to 3dc . I m simply stating that there are issues with loading image/alphas (as is ) because of mid level convertion and live clay brushes.

I made some test and this is what i found about it: psd format in 3dc treats 50grey as border, png is better for alphas. you can convert alphas in ps or gim etc with just tweaking levels output raising the black to 50 percent. zbrush has a slider for that job , mid value slider that changes the range of the alphas. would be cool to have it in brush options in 3dc Also brushes that have range black zero work fine in surface draw but not in live clay brushes. Hope someone finds there usefull.

Hey, i have several zbrush alphas that i want to use in 3dc . Is there an easy way to remap the height for depth. Zbrush is black to white depth and 3dc is 50%grey zero depth for height map . I found this but though if there was an easier way to do this. THanks in advance!

+1 This would be awesome

Anyone else get this error ? Pc V4.9.01

Powerful smoothing should be increased , i got the 39 beta and sculpting now lacks a powerfull smoothing brush.

I have feature request regarding uv repacking. When i merge objects already uved and textured in uv room after i press the apply button normalmap is wrong because normalmap is in tangent space. This happens only when i rotate islands for better packing. If its possible to convert to world space ,merge the islands and then return to tangent space would be awesome. Thanks

Very nice!

Found some free time and texture this sketch . Very loose sketch but fun.

Fair points but 3dc arrived many years after zbrush(a 20year old software). Now the competition on "sculpting" is even bigger . Zbrush was considered a cheating on forums :P back in 2005 . Multiresolution has several good points such as keeping your initial mesh around ,sculpting with textures on ,level 1 can be rigged and animated and then do sculpting on the rest levels as secondary correctives, multires can have bigger polycount on highest levels ,feels smooth on quad sculpting and several more. It also has its negatives such as baking on a very distorted high poly level1 will produce artifacts on baking, level1 quads have to be equally spaced and under heavy sculpting you see streches and many more. I guess it comes down to pipeline and personal preference but i think 3dc is not advetised as much as z so its logical to assume its not used as much.But its a false assumption cause many studios adopt it into their pipeline ,zbrush lacks several featurers unique in 3dc. Most z artist i ve shown 3dc had trouble finding their zbrush brushes like every action they do has big impact on the mesh and everyone asks where are my subd levels( :P ) even though i describe it as a buffed sculptris on steroids. Also why there are surface tools inside voxel mode. I hope sometime in the future we get changes on the brushes behavior(eg sculpting with depth 34563123 doesnt make much sense) and make the 3dc approach on levels more apparent.

Can you share a video because i have a hard time understanding what you mean?

I think i get it. You want to be able to sculpt a mesh that has uvs thas texture on it , say you make a model on a modeling app and wish to sculpt it later on and extract bumps and disps etc. For this to happen i dont think its necessary for subd implemantion only a project uvs to vertex color and then back at your staring model. Havent tryed this pipeline and i am not sure if its already supprted.

I also think most users want subd in sculpting cause sculpting on quads gives a smoother result much faster . This can be negated with extra tools inside the sculpting phase (if necessary).

I wanted to show a sketch i made just to show how rooms are very well connected togther. Begun as voxel then sculpted with adaptive tesselation and then textured in paint room( ao and cuv layers created from high res mesh). I can now make changes to high poly and still get my nice pbr materials inside paint room, after that i can start baking into a mid/low poly mesh into a uv set on its own. Then after all pieces are baked i can merge uv sets into 1 eg after baking everything .In the meantime everything is interconected , this mean i can update high poly or texture at anytime even AFTER bake. This is pipeline is a huge timesaver(for me at least ) and not very apparent for new users. Eg proxy slider should popup when caching or some sort of hint area where mini guides help the user . I also think that 3dc should not be afraid of experimenting not copy the industy standards cause it will make it differenciate from the rest.

Can someone elaborate how going up and down subd levels will improve my sculpting experience instead of just pressing the proxy slider? Subd sculpting is not even in my top 20 wanting list for 3dc ,some z features i wouldnt say no subd sculpting aint one of them. Pictures :This sculpted in sculpt room and then baked displacements onto a subd low poly mesh that i can detail in paint room. Might not work on all cases but it generally works. As for voxels ,its a big plus having this feature cause there are some cases and operations that you cant make with polygons. Eg I tried ( in zbrush) splitting a sphere in half and then boolean union it with little success. The reason i use 3dc more often than z is because to a certain point it forces dynamesh and 3dc is better at handling iregural/arbitral meshes. Also baking and merging/rearraging uved meshes AFTER BAKE is a super strong feature for 3dc.Not even painter can do that. As for modeling function they both lack in comparison to modeling packages such as max/maya/blender with modifiers etc.3dc is not even advertized as a modeling package though i hope more modeling tool functions make it the future. Good Z examples are polish by groups and batch operations that can be performed (decimate-export etc) that i d like to see in 3dc. Both are very good apps depending on what you want to do with , they work differently but thats not a bad thing if you invest the time on both. I wanted to make a video for z users to find their toolset inside coat but i dont have much free time. Maybe that will help some people wanting to also learn 3dc.