Still not uploaded, right or do I oversee anything?

Unfortunately I'm marketing their software for free haha.

Great 👍🏻

isnt "facebook" or those p.o.s. services providers infecting blender 3+ ? i heard things changed in a "bad way" from 2.93+ , i remember reading something i didn't like, just wondering if anyone else heard or read this.. i have 2.93 only or even before then because of whatever i change i read, i did not agree with.

blender still lags on an 8 meg model while zb spins it around tho

Thank you Goose.

You said it best!

Thank you SF! I took it down because it was starting to attract trolls more than anything. Anyone who cares about the channel had seen it and it's not a video I wanted to keep around for the long haul. I'm doing good!

Glad to be back! Thanks Asaka!

I forget that! Guuud comment! Should be an 2nd and on video about this topic? Or ... other topics when using Blender... or multitasking with other apps , or Blender Layout , panels customization. But an comedy "hot take" video sometimes is good to watch LOL

Well said!

Thanks Claudio!

Yessss

Can you not use shapekeys like zbrush layers? Or do you mean another type of layer

@@TheLofren I'm not sure. But It'd be cool to have a layer system similar to Mudbox's so one can work non-destructively which is one of the strengths of Blender from the get go.

There's an addon called Sculpt Layers that's really good!

@@Stillenacht3D I haven't used Mudbox for quite a long time now, but I don't recall its layers being dissimilar to Blender's multires modifier subdivision levels. You non-destructively move up and down between levels of details and they're even segregated between viewport, sculpting, and render, depending on your needs at any given point. Like I said, though, it has been a while since I used Mudbox so I might be forgetting another aspect of them.

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I'm not completely shure what ZBrush does but as I understand it right, it smooth the topology based on a face set / Polygroup. You can do something similar with the "Meshfilter Tool" on the left, set it to smooth/relax/sharpen. With Options -> Auto Masking -> Face Sets active, you can hover over a specific Face Set and then drag the cursor from left to right to smooth only the marked area. If it should affect the whole model at once then just untoggle Auto Masking -> Face Sets. Hope this can help!

I love that expression... so much :p

Unless you want to make it as a pro there's no reason to pick up Zbrush over Blender.

They got too comfy in their position as industry standard that they just got fat and complacent off the licenses they were selling. Now the Blender train is accelerating too fast.

Blender is an all-rounder as well so not just sculpting all parts of the CG workflow including 2D Grease pencil, 3D modelling, visualisation, product, VR, architecture vis, VJ loops, design, motion graphics, vfx, video editing and compositing all can be done inside Blender without having to leave it, or EXR and other file types exported for other dedicated programs to improve on!

You'll love it. EEVEE v2 is coming early 2023

You won't have to wait long - apparently it's releasing on Wednesday!

The more people who contribute to the Blender fund and/or code to blender the faster these things get developed, it takes the whole community to pull together in some way shape or form. they are dealing with 3 versions of blender, creating new features, revamping old ones with new code and ways, they are seriously under the pump and still take time to solve problems in record time, talk to the community, cooperate with external companies to incorporate specific hardware development, maintain libraries, optimize costantly while tracking projects, working with inhouse movie projects and software that does everything from 2D animation to hyperrealistic sculpting, special fx, video and geometry nodes. man i feel lucky, do you? and they are hiring now, so anyone who has coding or website skills can get to be part of it.

Layers are available with a simple addon, idk how good it is but as a fact

@@VallyWake even better if that addon could be merged into Benders code, if it gets into the main branch and supported by the person or another Dev then it benefit's everyone using Blender

@@GaryParris Adding new developers to the core developers requires the right time and setup, to avoid getting messed.

@@mayorc we already know this

Yh. The GoB addon makes the process seamless. Try it

And your videos are amazing. Informative and very well edited, so much fun to watch. :)

Ditto. Never knew you could have viewports connected. btw... HOW is this done?

@@jeremybot Kinda ran into a problem while implementing the viewport function. Thought it was a simple as parenting two cameras together, and that works .. ok... when just rotating, but zooming completely breaks it. Still trying to figure out a way!

​@@andersbrynildsen9026 Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I'm really curious about this. This looks very handy. I work with photogrammetry scans, and for cleanup I can bring the original photos in attached to cameras, BUT I'm not sure how to get different views looking through different cameras, simultaneously.

thats 100 true. i stayed away from zbrush in making faces, faces are so subtle and sensitive to camera distortion. zbrush is the master at distorting your work. i will use zbrush for anything else other than face.

@@christianlee1423 Mudbox for example was way better for seeing shapes accurately, and ZBrush doesn't even have a proper way to setup camera (with settings similar to 3D software), aspect ratio of viewport and image reference planes that are proper objects, not some strange gimmicky solutions that move with a wrong button click. Mudbox also had neat way of being able to zoom into viewport image plane, so you could accurately see some smaller curves and profiles. Most of this is of course true for Blender too.

The issue isn't with Zbrush, it's with users that don't have enough knowledge/experience of seeing shadow/light when sculpting. People have been sculpting perfect likenesses in Zbrush for over 20 years. Beginners also make the mistake of using a matcap instead of the basic material. There's also Keyshot(which most ZB seasoned users have) Yes, Blender/Mudbox are true 3d environments with true lighting, but I find this a poor excuse for simply not having the requisite Zbrush experience.

@@musashidanmcgrath youre right, if you are so good at sculpting u can get away with these things in zbrush. i myself saw a massive improvement when i switched to sculpting likeness in particular. anything else i will sculpt it in zbrush but i dont want to go back to sculpting a likeness in zbrush, i could sculpt a face there sure when accuracy isnt an issue.

@@christianlee1423 Yes, it's an interesting factor. I've been doing a lot of sculpting practice in VR lately and it's amazing the difference in true VR perspective Vs through a camera in your 3D package. It's as much of a difference as there is between Zbrush camera and a camera in a true 3D package. So really, the 3D camera is not perfect either.

Oh no you didn't! XD

and you can use IES light too if you want for real world lighting

that is most certainly a key takeaway.

Yup!