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ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide

By : Manuel Scherer
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ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games: Beginner's Guide

By: Manuel Scherer

Overview of this book

ZBrush is a fantastic tool for creating models for use in computer games. Using a wide range of powerful tools you can create models for vehicles, props, environments, and characters. This book makes creating game art in ZBrush fast and easy. It covers everything you need to create models of all kinds for your game projects, even if you've never used ZBrush before. Built around four complete ZBrush projects, the book gives you everything you need to sculpt props, vehicles, and creatures in ZBrush. You'll start by creating a "spooky tree" model, mastering the sculpting, texturing, and decoration skills that are essential for all ZBrush topics. Next you'll move to man-made objects with a sci-fi drone. Next you'll see how to sculpt monsters and other creatures, deal with cloth and other soft materials, and prepare the model to become an animated, controllable character in a game. The final project returns to machines, building a complete, detailed spaceship for use in your sci-fi games.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
ZBrush 4 Sculpting for Games
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

What you'll need for this book


First of all, make sure, you have at least ZBrush version 4.0 installed on your computer.

Note

ZBrush is very fast, but still requires a computer with a bit of horsepower. It takes full advantage of multiple cores in your computer or more RAM-Memory, the more the better. Still, a dual core processor with 1 or better 2 GB of RAM will probably be sufficient to work you through this book. If this is all Greek to you, but your computer isn't age-old, it will probably work out well, too.

Another important point to mention are pen tablets. They usually consist of a tablet and a pen, imitating real drawing on your computer. You can still work in ZBrush just with your mouse, but it is highly recommended to use a pen tablet. They are affordable, depending on the working size you choose. Using ZBrush with a pen tablet not only saves you a lot of time, but is also more fun, because it feels very intuitive and natural.

If you ever tried to paint with a mouse, you know that it's a lot faster with a pencil.

Note

If you think of buying a pen tablet www.wacom.com is a very well-known manufacturer.

This book assumes you're working with ZBrush on Windows. So if you're on a Mac, remember that the Control Key (Ctrl) we'll refer to is the Command Key (Cmd) on your keyboard instead.