Thanks for all the great compliments everyone!!!
Zmith[21] How my work flow has changed… well I would say it changed in a lot of ways. The fact that you can now have multiple sub tools is really huge! If you want to add something to your model later on in the process, this makes it easy to do. For example with the door knocker I started with the wolf and had no idea what I was going to make for the actual “knocker” part, but because I could add a new sub tool at anytime and work them both IN THE SAME SCENE I was able to just make it up as I went along. Also the small things… like having the eyes of a creature as a seperate tool makes it easy to sculpt eye lids that fit perfectly around the eyeball, or teath, belts anything. Being able to have multple tools really helps keep your models feeling connected.
Being able to paint and model with an alpha without having to go into Projection Master is huge! I really enjoy painting models now… before I always dreaded texture mapping, just seamed so mechanical and tedious to me. Now I feel like I’m airbrushing a real model.
“Lazymouse” this had made modeling those long strokes a lot easier. It enables you to get more confident lines without that ever present lumpiness in Z2 that is so hard to smooth out.
More polys… it’s alway good to be able to add more detail and certainly more polys allows me to do that. But the best part for me about the increase in pollys is the fact that it frees me up a little more so I can concept in 3D. What I mean is if I have an idea for something and I want to just model it without worring about setting up a good base cage I can. I can make a sphere or import a box and I have enough polys to divide my model enough so I can realize what is in my brain without it falling apart from a lack of polys… this always used to happen to me around the nose and mouth area of a head.
This is turning into a very long response… I guess I’ll leave it as… My work flow has really been effected by the new tools in Z3. I haven’t even mentioned Layers or Transpose which each one of them deserve a page of writting by themselves. And there is still more…
It’s starting to sound like I’m a salesman for pixologic. HA HA HA…
I hope my ramblings have answered your question…