some more progress

Asphalt cracked

jumping back into Zbrush

Its been a while since I used Zbrush for work. Pick up a few new techniques sculpting cracks
while working on a tilable street texture.

Here are some other stamps that i made in mudbox for reusable details that will be applied later on.

Substance painter

 

Substance Painter is what I had imagine the next step for 3d painting should be. Being able to paint multichannel is very efficient. This is something that Mudbox is lacking. I urge the developers/programers for Mudbox to implement this in. I think Autodesk can try to bring Paint FX into mudbox. Imagine how powerful it will be, being able to paint hair onto the model and bake it down. This will definitely be Mudbox's answer to Zbrush's fibermesh. Think of the the possiblilities, since paint Fx has a lots of parameters, it is procedural  which is great for production when you need to make a lot of iterations.

Support pillar picture dump

Ptex is pretty useless for game models(in most cases)

In my recent findings while I was trying out a workflow where I texture my highpoly with ptex and then bake it down to lowpoly which is suppose to create seamless high quality textures. Problem was it was too error prone and time consuming when it comes to baking inside Mudbox.
Polypainting in zbrush seems to be a more viable option since it stores the diffuse into the vertex color which can be baked in Xnormals. Ptex pretty much is only useful for movie Vfx. Until Mudbox get a better algorithm or method for baking Normal maps and Color maps, it will be inefficient to use Ptex in a game pipeline. I have wasted enough time trying to get this method to work lol.

Wood pillar texture wip

just some mudbox screen cap of a 1920 style pillar mixed with wood and marble material.

New Mudbox extension

- New Symmetry Options for Retopology and for Existing Meshes
- New Caliper Tool - for measurements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_tgnI2qc4