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I myself had missed the use of the mesh scale z in the inflate dialog box

so by reducing this value the step shown above of z scaling can be by-passed.


also realized
some inflates can have more detail preserved by reducing the quad size to 1

I love the texture

my gallery posting has turned into a simple little tutorial.
For those interested in the beta inflate

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Here are the basics Vanrailey I have not done a gun before so i've based it on one modelled by fusebulb (thanks fusebulb http://www.sharecg.com/pf/fusebulb) here is the depth map I suggest you don't keep reinventing the wheel, wherever possible copy and paste sections from other depth maps, use grad...

Thank you for the very useful and informative tutorial Monsoon

here is a link to a nice depth map and there are many more on the internet to see what we are aiming for

http://www.so-room.com/contents/color/c ... edepth.jpg

image Copyright 2005-2008 by SO

http://www.so-room.com/topeng.php

Maybe seeing one i have only just started may be of more use Mr Nemo http://homepages.tesco.net/sculptor/horse.jpg in a paint program smooth gradients will curve objects out (horses head and neck) Then i use a lighten brush or a darken brush to pull things forward or push them back. Gaussian blurs f...

Image was prepared in a paint program as a coloured depth map. Had to redo it several times till i got the hang of where to lighten and darken to suit the inflate. Then simply inflated in the curvy beta. I really liked the fine art type of result. http://www.curvy3d.com/gallery/albums/userpics/fa.jpg

I think this tutorial falls down a bit because it assumes knowledge from the viewer that frankly may not be there. In the video we see a click on the base colour and magically the model changes even though the base colour remains white. I think the curvy help file needs to explain a bit about alpha ...

The other great thing is that the widgit move tool takes on a whole new life with these flat panels, you can bend and twist them at will.
Rather like a very powerful loft.
So the architecture does not have to remain square.


picture for demo technique only

finding inflate very useful

playing with curvy beta
I think i need some more practice with highlights and texturing

Thanks for info

very impressive
you have a good eye for 3d form.
I am interested to why you need zbrush in the 3rd stage.
Maybe we could ask simon to make some changes so it could be done in curvy ?

oops
must be a parking space pirate
earth visit ?