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A Beginners Guide : Zbrush to 3DS Max Pipeline.
Hello!
I am very happy to present you with a guide that I have spent the last two weeks putting together!
Zbrush 3.1 to 3DS Max 2008 Pipeline: A (Very) Rough Guide
It is a guide demonstrating a very basic, but highly effective, pipeline between Zbrush and 3DS Max. It will show you how to take a model you have created in Zbrush into 3DS Max for the purposes of rendering with MentalRay.
There are 5 Chapters in the guide:
Chapter 1 - Starting in Zbrush
Chapter 2 - Creating UV's using Blender
Chapter 3 - Back to Zbrush to paint and create maps
Chapter 4 - Photoshopping your maps
Chapter 5 - 3DS Max (using MentalRay to render out your model)
I have tried to make this guide as thorough as possible, explaining every step I take and why I took it, as well as attempting to walk you through each program used as if you were new to it. It is a full colour PDF file, 32 pages long and has screenshots to go along with almost every step of the guide. I have tried my best to approach this from a first-time-user's point of view for Blender and Max.
This has taken me a while to put together, so I truly hope you enjoy it and find it useful!
Regards
Adam
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Finally!!! Someone to hold my hand!
Adam, This is fantastic! I have been struggling through any tutorial I could find online and thumbing through books for tips and have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to make good maps from my zbrush models. As you say, there may be better ways of doing it, but this is the first time I've understood it enough to make it work.
Thanks for your time and consideration! Have to go and get busy now....
A Beginners Guide : Zbrush to 3DS Max Pipeline
mradamw this pdf of yours A Beginners Guide : Zbrush to 3DS Max Pipeline has been much needed by noobs.
The section using 3DS Max 2008 is fully applicable to 3DS Mac 2009.
Max 2009 has the following enhancements that improve work flow:
- Interactive rendering - Autodesk video
- Materials and Maps - Autodesk video
- Mapping - Autodesk video