NOMAD 1.6.2 TO PROCREATE 5.2 - with New UV unwrapping

[@PhillipLofas]

Just going into 3D. Got Nomad an hour ago. This has really helped. Clear advice. Thank you

[@SouthernGFX]

Thank you, I hope you enjoy,.

[@TheKevphil]

From Xenomorphs to cartoon owls, is there no subject too terrifying for Glenn?!? Great stuff, as usual, mate! Glad your iPad Pro is working out for ya, memory-wise.

[@psysword]

Ha ha. That's it

[@StudioJason69]

Masterful…simply the exact info necessary. Appreciate your efforts in a tutorial for this, and as always..love your Artwork!

[@morbidfancy1]

Found you via video that compares nomad n forger , get back for more … many thanks for the work you have done on those tutorials sir :)

[@hArtyTruffle]

Oh wow! I missed this until now. Been focusing on other areas of my life. Will have to recap on your wonderful nomad course and then create/finish some models and pop them into procreate. I know I’m late, but this is fantastic news Glyn. Thanks :)

[@SouthernGFX]

No worries!

[@cblackall21]

Thanks! This is all very exciting. Who would have thunk it-and all on an iPad.

[@johndeggendorf7826]

Nomad Guru 🙏…it’s a beautiful day in Nomad Land. ☀️ You definitely dive deeper in your videos, they’re worth waiting the extra 20 minutes! ✊ I have questions, but I’m too busy celebrating tonight. 🍺🍺🍺🎩✌️

[@FrankMontano]

Watched a few videos on the update yesterday. Super excited you put this together. Very informative as usual Glen!!👏👏👏

[@eric3dee]

Love how well the grass worked. I do wonder if you UVd one blade of grass and then duplicated/merged it around if it would retain the UVs as overlapping. May be worth trying. If so you could paint a gradient in Procreate allowing the grass to fade from dark to light bottom to top. Also if it worked, the same technique could be used on the eyes, allowing you to only have to paint one eye... I may have to try this as well

[@SouthernGFX]

Good shout. Let’s test it.

[@eric3dee]

@@SouthernGFX just did. Unfortunately, UVs vanish when doing a simple merge :/ ah well.

[@SouthernGFX]

@@eric3dee worth a shot

[@andygorman858]

This update with UV uncapping dropped so fast it caught me by surprise! Thank you for this as it wasn’t very clear on Nomads site how to actually use this new tool. So the base mesh has to be less than 100k for it to work? Will be watching this one many times me thinks tillI get the hang of it! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@SouthernGFX]

1.64 is out now and I’m getting up to nearly 200k polys unwrapped.

[@andygorman858]

@@SouthernGFX update already? Is there a mention of the cylinder UV unwrap yet? I know they have box and sphere already. Also, how do you specify what one to use or is it automatic?

[@sinisalomikko]

Irony in this workflow is that nomad already has better shading, lighting, post processing and pbr painting than procreate. Only advantage you’ll get is layers. So far procreates 3d features are just weird curiosity. But let’s see how they develop them. Probably we’ll have layers in nomad at that point 😄

[@KeithTalbotArt]

well you already get layers in Nomad as well :D

[@geoffreymegardon5624]

Procreate probably has a better brush engine still :)

[@Jelkeludo]

Maybe, but I personally enjoy painting in procreate so much more. The brushes just work (or at least feel) better imo

[@SouthernGFX]

Layers work really well in Nomad right now as Keith points out. The brush engine in Procreate is world class so let’s see how they develop the 3D. It is their first release with 3D so it’s going to change quickly. It may never grow beyond a curiosity. For example, I expected much more from their animation solution by now. Let’s not forget that the iPad itself was just a weird curiosity at one point and Steve Jobs didn’t want a pencil.

[@sinisalomikko]

Yeah there´s layers but it still missing typical blending modes. So far it offers only layer opacity. I don´t find procreates 3d paint quite ready yet for my own liking since they buried basic roughness and metalness values inside brush editor. So i´m gonna wait and see how they develop it more usable in future.

[@mattiasmalk]

Thanks for the quick coverage! I have a follow up question, please. After exporting the painted obj from Procreate, I tried opening it in Nomad, expecting to see the painted model. However all I saw was the model with UV tiles. Tried this and that but still nothing.

[@SouthernGFX]

Nomad only sees vertex painting, it can't use the maps currently. It's a one way ticket!

[@kyliedesire7425]

Hi. How to do it in MedibangPaint or Photoshop?

[@Fa1ry]

when i unwrap my model it doesn't give me the uv texture shown on ur sphere at 1:35

[@babygurl4492]

I’m eternally grateful for your tutorial 😊

[@coulterjb22]

Amazing. Thanks for that.....that's a handy new feature!

[@jwryanjr]

New favorite person

[@SouthernGFX]

Kind words my friend. Your support is much appreciated!

[@SaneLucas]

Just wonderful Sire.. Thank you... 🙏❤️🎨🖌️

[@JohnOdd]

That’s really cool! I was getting tired of running my stuff through Forger

[@Dark4nimator]

Brilliant mate loved it thanks for that and I look forward to more in the next few weeks :D

[@Sam-pm9vy]

I wondered from the update notes if this would be possible now, thanks for the tutorial!

[@risaoram]

So awesome and easy to do a very basic import as a total beginner. I’m realizing the importance of creating separate components in Nomad if you want the “masking” type control for painting. Presumably that is done with layers? Or is it each subsequent shape added is a new “part” that can be grouped with other parts to make up a component (like in AutoCAD programs)?

[@gremianagonzalez681]

Great video. Very simple and explanatory, thank you very much!

[@traceykramer7998]

Thank you so much for this. I am very new to all of this and you made it super simple. You are awesome!

[@byAndreasEkberg]

So if I use gravity sketch, can I go via nomad and fix what needs to be fixed to be able to paint on my obj’s in procreate?

[@risaoram]

Interesting question, that I’d like to know the answer to as well. I just discovered Gravity Sketch on iPad recently after playing around with it on Oculus. If I understand your question correctly, it seems like it would work if you just export as obj file from Gravity Sketch/ Import into Nomad to create atlas UV/ then export to Procreate. I’m gonna try it!

[@wronghandlane9665]

Fantastic!

[@SouthernGFX]

Many thanks!

[@Kyle_Butterfield81]

great video! just what I needed! Thanks!

[@johanleion]

Absolutely awesome tutorial as always. But how do I get the Procreate-painted texture back into Nomad again, if possible?

[@SouthernGFX]

Check my SouthernGFX Twitter or insta. I posted a quick how-2 that will get you going

[@MojoMan49]

2 things: First when you “decimate” the vertex or polys you refer to in this video - where is that located? Second is that when I export to the Procreate what do I need to inure that my pain tools will apply to the location on the body. I always end up with the pen tool far from the point where I actually want to apply the paint… Again fabulous instruction!

[@jorgetabanera6039]

Thank you very much for the video. Very useful.

[@sel263]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you!

[@SouthernGFX]

You're very welcome!

[@geildesignt]

Why are you keeping the triangles during decimation? Is there a reason for that or something else?

[@stanleykubik1778]

can you tell me where is the option to turn on and off the visibility for the colored uv map on the model once unwrapped ? thanks

[@bullshark1152]

Great vid Glen..

[@relentingVids]

This is amazing! Thank you!!!

[@Undead_Lamb]

Ok so I'm currently having an "error" on procreate that says "Overlapping UV mapping" and it messing with me painting on it. Hopefully lowering the poly count will help but idk what to do if it doesn't help

[@geildesignt]

Is it possible after unwrapping to increase it again for better details? Your owl looks blocky. Is there a way to keep the high details of a model?

[@garrettcorona]

Day has come! So what’s the poly count caped out in Nomad?

[@SouthernGFX]

I'm going up slowly and I'm still getting usable UVs at 150k. I'm about to try a 300k but I'm not hopefull lol

[@garrettcorona]

@@SouthernGFX lol thanks! I’ll try myself I’m still on a PRO 2018

[@SouthernGFX]

@@garrettcorona it’s fine on the 4gb model.

[@SouthernGFX]

@@garrettcorona I just did it on my phone and it works great.

[@BenMode]

Great! Thank you for this,

[@alienkid69]

hey when i import my sculpture onto procreate and try to draw on it the drawing goes way to the left and below where im using the apple pencil, is there a fix for this?

[@XanarchistBlogspot]

Thanks very helpful.

[@SouthernGFX]

Glad it was helpful!

[@GabeGault]

This is awesome. Question how do I import UV- map back into Nomad from Pro Create?

[@SouthernGFX]

I'm pushing this new update to the limit tonight. If it's on my iPad its getting a UV map soon lol. I tried it on my iPhone too kzbin.infocommunity We recently did a video showing how I found Procreate 5.2 in the first few days but the one frustration I was hearing online is that new users and none-3D artists were struggling with adding UV mapping to models to make them usable. UV mapping is the way most programs handle adding a texture map to a model. It gives the points in a model (vertex) a way to be displayed flat to make it easier to work on in programs like Photoshop and Procreate. It ‘unwraps’ the mesh and effectively lays it flat giving you a ‘U’ and ‘V’. Now, Nomad just got an update that allows you to make these UV coordinates in a very simple and straightforward way. This video shows you that workflow!

[@psychoticgiraffe]

is there a way to import painted texture bakes from nomad to procreate

[@damianomansi]

Hi, I cannot export the textures because I am colouring on the vertices in nomad sculpt. How can I export the textures as .png with nomad sculpt?

[@dannyknight2597]

It worked :D thank you!!!!

[@Gael_AG]

Anyway to start to pai nt on nomad and export texture to procreate along with un maps?

[@akongas]

Is there any way to unwrap manually so you can tell the app where the seams should be? Also is there a way to export the normals?

[@davidcotton6999]

Hi I'm getting the ipad pro 16GB, and I want to do things like create a 3D robot in Nomad, import into Procreate. And have the robot move around inside a city scene I make in Procreate. Is there a way to animate the 3D robot? Even if its just doing it frame by frame animation that will be good enough

[@haloiniastrid]

Hi, I have a question, how do you turn the uv texture map off and on again? I have a problem because I think my nomad defaulted at off so I can't see which object is uv mapped from the texture, I can only see it in the little orange (UV) text markings besides the layers, it's a bit of an inconvenience, I thank you a lot if you can explain this!

[@nexgpt]

Hey! Thanks for your content ! I just started to used Gravity Sketch and im wondering if you personally still use it and if you can import Gravity Sketch in those apps (Nomad) in this case ? Thanks

[@mushnoodle]

i think there is a mirror that worked for me im not quite sure how it works since i dont know procreate so well but if you go to that arrow topleft you will get a bar that says flip vertical horizontal etc if you hit "projection" there is a lil switch called bidirectional it... mirrored the sides for me, just make sure you're on the right layer. it will create a strange kinda white estimated outline around what it will mirror (also limit to projection depth which you can move in advanced setting, might have to detach it first to get the arrow). you might have to use selection or screen-visible side (< ps: word of warning the undo-display is buggy and its not a real-time mirror function.

[@MikeLeed]

Is it possible to make components? For example the flower, sculpt it in nomad, export to procreate, paint, import back to nomad, sculpt and the round grass base, duplicate flowers, export to procreate, paint grass without losing flower’s paint.

[@rebeldown771]

Nomad always freezes and crashes upon unwrap. Is it possible this is because my iPad doesn't have enough memory for this? I have an old iPad Air.

[@allourep]

Is it possible to draw where you would like the seams in your UV map in nomad or do you have to only use the default unwrap that it makes on its own?

[@privato3232]

From zbrush to Nomad how do I export to make the months multipart?

[@Jolios89]

This is awesome. Worked well for me is it easy to bring it back into Nomad after painting in Procreate?

[@AScribblingTurtle]

Will they or have they implement(ed) Texturepainting into Nomand too? (On Android, there is no ProCreate or other App that can do that 😥) If yes, that would be awesome. Then you can finally draw sharp lines, and details without having to to subdivide the model into millions of polys, just for the sake of getting a clean stroke or stamp.

[@TruthBombTom]

Hey, do you have a discount code for your courses :)

[@kyliedesire7425]

Cool but for Android users like me it is better to use MedibangPaint since Procreate cannot work on mobile phones unfortunately. Weird by the way. 😮

[@brandoneason2816]

After painting my model in Procreate when importing in Blender I am getting an error. Is anyone else having that issue? If so where you able to figure out how to resolve it and get the painted model into Blender?

[@digitalwizard1608]

Can you throw it back to nomad to render?

[@dillonwright13]

I have a proposition, what if people could use Nomad Sculpt to create backgrounds for storyboards and animations?

[@indy7764]

thanks!! very usefull!

[@v747]

How to bake nomad colors?

[@Green_and_Silver]

Does anyone know tow to record video of the object in AR (in Procreate)?

[@risaoram]

Yeah it’s in the wrench icon in upper left/ share/ share image/ share animated gif/png/mp4/hvec

[@risaoram]

Oops, sorry, its wrench/ 3D /share in VR

[@verygoodfreelancer]

hello nomad sculpt geniuses!! wondering if anyone has been able to bring UVWs *BACK* from procreate to nomad sculpt, for rendering?

[@burr1143]

Hi! Sorry i have a question, is the 16gb ipad pro performance so much better than 8gb one? I want it just for some face/fullbody sculpting, Is 8gb enough?

[@risaoram]

You’ll run out of space pretty quick with 8 gb if you’re doing a lot of modeling and saving files on the ipad/take a lot of videos/pics/have a lot of apps. I’m a space hog and opted for 512gb on a iPad Pro 4th gen. I’ve only had the ipad for a few months and already gobbled up more than 30gb of space with all the apps and file saving. I’d personally go as big as you can afford with hard drive space since you can’t really upgrade this space in the future. Other option is to continuously offload and save content to external drive or cloud storage. But you want enough space available to access your active models on the actual iPad while you’re working on them. But if its performance you are after, then I’d opt for the 5th Gen (2021) iPad Pro which sports the M1 chip. That’s where the magic is at.

[@burr1143]

@@risaoram Thank you so much for great advice, in my country apple products are so expensive so i just can afford cheapest m1 iPad, since I have an external harddrive I'm not concerned about space, but I'm worried about running out of ram(8gb), battery draining and crashing apps like nomad in big projects. Did you ever have this kind of issues with your iPad?

[@risaoram]

@@burr1143 - I’ve only just discovered Nomad, so don’t have the skills to crash that yet. I have crashed some of the other RAM intensive 3D scanning apps (but those could be buggy too). My first super basic Nomad model was only 100k vertices and used about 100 MBs of RAM. I use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Procreate and I think I’ve only experienced slow down after importing a Photoshop or Illustrator file that was quite large. I hear you on the price, I’m fortunate to have my work pay for my iPad. I’d still recommend the 16GBs, but that’s just me not wanting my tools to slow down my creativity.

[@burr1143]

@@risaoram some people say the performance of 8 and 16gb still are almost same, so I'll wait till next apple event to see what happens. Thanks again

[@aekraj]

Thanks

[@SassyNymphet]

thx

[@Sebastianandthedeepbluemusic]

Is Nomad better then forager?

[@jasonreakes]

Thanks Glenn. An excellent video tutorial, as usual. The basic problem I still struggle with in Nomad is the decimation process and reducing the number of vertices to an exportable level without completely destroying the details of my original model. I must be too thick to get it. I shall have to stick to painting in Nomad for the time being (which fortunately, by the way, I already find perfectly adequate for my own purposes and not obviously inferior to Procreate).

[@BarKeegan]

Damn, when I unwrap, I don’t see coordinates, and If I bring into Procreate, all the shadows and background are black

[@SouthernGFX]

@@BarKeegan unwrap and click inspect at the bottom on the new version. Try that

[@BarKeegan]

@@SouthernGFX bit better, but still not seeing coordinates on the sphere. Will have to persevere, appreciate it

[@thomasparsons4871]

I’m encountering a bug in the new nomad update that is crashing the program when I try to save my progress. Is anyone else having a similar problem?

[@SouthernGFX]

Not had that yet Thomas. Is it every time?

[@thomasparsons4871]

It seems to be just the one model, but now it will crash sometimes at random. It always effects my saves.

[@thomasparsons4871]

@@SouthernGFX I think it’s getting worse. The auto save function just lost me half an hour’s work.

[@ericscott6493]

It really made the model lose a lot of resolution when importing to procreate

[@SouthernGFX]

I just tried it on my iphone. Check out the community Tab above! kzbin.infocommunity