ZBrush Character Creation - Advanced Digital Sculpting 2nd Edition

314 chapter 9 ■ Normal Maps, Displacement Maps, Maya, and Decimation Master

Enable displacement display in ZBrush

Clone map to main texture

menu for export

Map display strength

Display as bump or displace

Set dpSubPix level

32 bit depth option

Create 32 bit map

Set map midpoint

Smooth UV coordinates

when generating map

Map preview

Flip map vertically

Generate RGB map

Adaptive mode for

map generation Create 16 bit map

Apply map to mesh

Figure 9.30 The Tool → Displacement Map menu and its functions

Table 9.1: Displacement menu options

Option Description

Preview Swatch Shows a preview icon of the currently selected displacement map.

Disp On Enables the display of the selected displacement map.

Clone Disp Copies the current map to the main Alpha menu to facilitate export.

Intensity Sets the display intensity of the displacement map inside ZBrush.

Mode Sets the display mode of the currently selected map. If deselected, displays as

bump map; if selected, displaces the mesh with the current map.

Apply DispMap Applies the displacement map to the mesh.

Create DispMap Generates a displacement map based on the current settings.

Adaptive Adaptive mode will subdivide the mesh in more detailed areas while generating the

map. This works more like a raycasting.

DPSubPix This mode will subdivide the mesh while generating the maps.

SmoothUV Smooths the UV coordinates when generating the mesh.

Mid Sets the midpoint value of the mesh—leave this at .5.

Flip V Flips the map vertically.

3 Channels Creates an RGB map.

32 Bit Sets the bit depth from 16 to 32 bit; when on, this will enable the scale slider.

Scale This slider sets the object scale when generating a 32-bit map; leave this at 1.

Create And

Export Map

Create and export the 32-bit map; must be used when working with 32-bit maps as

they cannot be displayed in ZBrush.