#ZBRUSH 3D COAT WORKFLOW HOW TO#
#ZBRUSH 3D COAT WORKFLOW FREE#

Sadly the 3DCoat staff dont know much about SecondLife and their intructions keep assuming I fully understand the UI and have a deep knowledge of 3D modeling, retopologizing, UV, and their 3 types of painting.Īre there any 3DCOAT SL Mesh creatiors that have some basic easy to follow workflow steps on moving a voxel to SL DAE with the textures? Well after several emails back and forth with the staff at 3DCoat (and they have tried to be helpful), I am pulling my heair out is getting through 3DCoat's workflow steps from VOXEL to a texture painted model that can cleanly be exported to Blender. I also have been hoping that 3DCoat could do in 1 tool what I now rely on two tool to get ready to send to Blender for DAE creation. It uses the same Voxel modeling that Sculptris uses and has a lot of additional modeling tools that Sculptris doesnt have. So I decided to take a serious stab at 3DCoat.

But I have learned that the ZBrush UV Master has become a critical part of getting the Scultpris model ready for exporting to Blender which in turn can create the DAE file.

#ZBRUSH 3D COAT WORKFLOW HOW TO#

I love Sculptris and thanks to some advice from this thread I have even been able to learn how to use Sculptris's polycount reduction tool and reduction brush tool to make some really cool artistic models to bring into SL. I have been experimenting wirh many tools and different workflows. Im doing now simple static meshes like wall, tombstone or piece of wood, but sculptures from zbrush were a lot more complex.Throughout January I have been trying to figure out the best workflow to get a 3D Model frmo being sculpted to being textured to getting into SL with what was sculpted and textured.

#ZBRUSH 3D COAT WORKFLOW FREE#

I think they all have free trials though, so do try them out and see which ones you like before you buy something you don’t like. There are sculpting tools in most of the popular 3D modelling programs now too though (Blender, Maya and Modo have them) and there are a number of other sculpting programs as well, like the free Sculptris (pretty basic, but hey, it’s free) Mudbox (but it’s from Autodesk, so it’s only got a 10$ a month subscription and you can’t buy it) and 3D-Coat (which is about half the price of ZBrush, does a lot of things really well, but doesn’t have some fancy features like FiberMesh) I personally use 3D-Coat for sculpting, retopology, UV mapping, baking and texture painting.

Sculpting is generally better for making complex organic shapes (like characters or animals or lumpy rocks) and doing a “low poly version” first is often much faster for man made objects (that you can break down into simpler shapes) like pencils or chairs or houses.Īlso ZBrush is really good and there’s so much amazing art done with it, but it’s a pain to learn and indeed quite expensive. Both workflows are good for different things. It all depends on what kind of model you’re working on.

Zbrush 3d coat workflow