ZBrush to Blender 2.8 displacement - a quick "How To".

This is a short tutorial showing you how to get ZBrush to generate displacement maps you can use in Blender. No GoB used here, but we do use the MultiMap Exporter in ZBrush.
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[@jdg84arts]

Finally! A Tutorial that has actual sense and explanation! Thx for this! 🙏

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

You're welcome, thanks for watching! And remember to have your meshes unwrapped before doing this.

[@blendwithn9836]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial! Hope to see more in the future

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Yep, really busy right now, but hope to get back to making more soon.

[@ZaidAlGayyar]

it help a lot, thanks

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Glad it helped!

[@stellersandria5471]

THIS IS SO GOOD, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!!!

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Thank you, you're welcome!

[@leoli5343]

treasure video thank you so much!

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mostafakabeel7119]

so good, thanks so much!!!!!!

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

You're welcome!

[@iGambitoi]

God tier tutorial!

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Cheers!

[@beepboopd.5109]

An absolute godsend

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Cheers!

[@meh8260]

thank you so much

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Thanks for watching.

[@KarelChytilArt]

Thanks

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@user-qx9hy9dt8h]

👍

[@IshamPadron]

How do you get the scaling right and ready to export to Blender? In Zb my when I export to Blender using GoZ it comes in really huge and then my displacement maps dont work.

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Hi Ishy. Generally if your size in ZBrush is roughly 2 units in the Y axis (check the Tool palette, Geometry, Size rollup, then you should be okay (at least in ZBrush!). If it's way off that number, you can reset your subtool to a size that ZBrush likes by going to Tool palette, Deformation, and use the Unify button. That will resize the currently active subtool. Obviously if you have a lot of subtools things are different. Then you can use ZPlugins, Transpose Master to create a temporary single subtool (hit the TPoseMesh button), and Unify the new (combined) subtool. Once that's done, go back to Transpose Master and use TPose ¦ SubT and it will split your subtools up again for you. Now everything will be at a unified size and should hopefully work well for you. If that size is too small in Blender, just use Transpose Master again and scale it to whatever size you want and TPose ¦SubT when done. Hope it helps!

[@aaayerus]

Can't u export all of the subtools in one file, assign the modifiers and then separate the objects? This way, not only u will import everything at once, but also have all the modifiers inherited by every object.

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Do you know what, that never occurred to me! Great tip! Thanks for posting it, hopefully it helps others out as much as me.

[@lauralunavella2471]

Grazie

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Prego!

[@denizkesmen5806]

THANKS ALOt

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

You're very welcome!

[@nytr8_]

so i can use this method to retopologize any high detail mesh in blender without any lag ?

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Pretty much!

[@virvaghera7186]

How to import normal map in zbrush

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

There's not much point in importing a Normal map into ZBrush as it won't display it. As in, you can load it on, but you won't see a difference on your model. Other apps such as Substance Painter or Quixel do display normal maps (and let you paint on them even), but ZBrush is generally just used for the initial creation, it doesn't natively display them the way other apps do. So the workflow is sculpt on a mesh with several subdivisions, unwrap it, go to a lower subdivision, generate a Normal map, export it along with a lower resolution mesh to render in another DCC app. Or bring both into Painter or Quixel to modify it even further. Hope this helps!

[@eduardoai5]

Very good tutorial Sean. I was folowing the steps, but when i select the exr file for my character, it seems to be wrong. Some weird marks like if they not on the same size on not in the right place

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

If that happens it might be worth checking your uvs. Perhaps some of them are outside the 0,1 uv space, or are overlapping a bit?

[@eduardoai5]

@@SeanForsythTutorials honestly, i have no clue how to see that hahaha but i check on blender and the texture dont match with the texture on Zbrush....Maybe a issue when i created a UV on Zbrush? (sorry about my english and thank you for answer me so fast =) )

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

It's really hard to tell without seeing a file. Maybe try using guv tiles for your unwrap rather than the uvs you are using now. Just to see if it fixes the problem.

[@eduardoai5]

Sean, i figure out. For some reason, the UV are inverted. I used GOB to import from zbrush to blender. Is there a possible that, using this metod, i dont have to flip the uv on zbrush when i export the map?

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

@@eduardoai5 ah yes gob will do it for you!

[@Enz1612]

When did you create the UVs?? Was it after the zRemeshing part??. Thanks

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Yes exactly, after the remeshing. Sorry for forgetting to mention it!

[@Enz1612]

@@SeanForsythTutorials Haha, i was confused for a second there. Would it be possible to bring the model into Blender without creating UVs or Displacement Maps? Maybe Decimating the model or something like that?

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

@@Enz1612 Yep you could absolutely do that! It just means you have no option ro texture it afterwards other than by procedural methods.

[@Enz1612]

@@SeanForsythTutorials Thats good to know!. Thanks Sean!

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

@@Enz1612 No problem!

[@jonasmuste3232]

Hey I don’t If you will see this but, I followed all you’re steps but my rendering port is just a grid

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Sorry, I'm not sur eI understand, is it your camera that isn't rendering? Have you unwrapped your model? I forgot to mention that in the vide I'm afraid! Otherwise your maps have no UVs to be created onto.

[@jonasmuste3232]

@@SeanForsythTutorials I already got it, thanks anyway.🙏

[@Fancy.languages1]

I followed you, but I exported with nothing...

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Which is not exporting? The displacement maps? Or the mesh? Are you sure you are on level 1 of your subtools when generating your displacements? And that in the Multimap exporter you also have "Subtools" as well as "Export Mesh" turned on.

[@Fancy.languages1]

@@SeanForsythTutorials yes...I will try to follow you to redo again. I couldn't get either mesh nor displacement maps...

[@SeanForsythTutorials]

Great. Let me know how it goes. If it's still a problem maybe you can send ne the file and I'll have a look.

[@Fancy.languages1]

@@SeanForsythTutorials Thank you, Sean. I just sent my file to your gmail.

[@Fancy.languages1]

I tried many times but failed :(