Hi Guys. I've copied this part over from the Modelling forum that I put up for your information. I don't know where I heard about Sculptris but,  I thought I would give it a go. I had a go with a Zbrush Demo a while ago and got nowere. 4 hours on Carrara, Sculptrise, Carrara And Bingo. Modelled a base Guy in Carrara, subdivided him, imported into Sculptris, had a play and exported as OBJ back to Carrara. The Results. A reasonable start to sculping?

And Painted

Carrara Render.

That's pretty impressive. Especially the texture work.

Now if you wanted to be funny, how'd he look with a Kawasaki or Lancia? (Those are great models as well, btw.)

Agree. Very impressive.

Yes Sculptris is a very good start. I am doing some experimetations with 3DCoat, that can export normal and displacement maps too.

Thanks Guys.

Did I mention that Sculptris is FREE!!

Z

A job well done there ZIKEO. I too have come across Sculptris lately and I find that it can really open ones eyes to experimentation and expands the carrara (and Hexagon if you have it like me) platform even further. Sculptris is a brilliant program considering that it is free and is very user freindly.

Yep, I posted a Sculptris thread too.  The total program is around 3 Megabytes and has almost a zero learning curve.  Making eyes for the critter is extremely simple, simply import another sphere and two appear, use size to resize em and grab to plop them in.  Why couldn't Zbrush be that simple.  Go into the Paint area, wait for the program to condition the object and paint away.  Save the texture map (automatically creates a UV map).  Save the .obj in the paint room, export it to Vue, Poser, Carrara, grab the UV map texture map (that looks like the devil) and it's recolored.   Agree a super FREE program, the guy that made it is a genius.  Plus Scupltris can make morphs of Victoria 3 so that you can make your own face, make warts, etc.  Unfortunately it will not work with V4 or any of the Poser figures because the meshs are to high in poly count.  Jan

Quote - Did I mention that Sculptris is FREE!!

Nope, you forgot to the first time around. But your results were cool so I googled it. Seeing that it didn't cost anything (unless making a voluntary donation) was a nice bonus.

Not too hard to use either. I ended up making a pig monster and put the result in my gallery. It's quite a bit different if you're used to box modeling. Still it's intuitive enough to figure out without reading much and also behaves well with any Wacom.

Very neat and easy, would love to figure out how to texture the thing.  I'm attaching what I made.

Ok... It appears there is an older private page that has the Alpha3 Release, which is what I was using and doesnt have the paint option.

So I found the proper page and downloaded :)

Now I can paint.

Ok here is my First attempt at all this.  No more than 20 Mins spent on this. :)  Including reading the Carrara manual to apply the texture map. :)

'tis fun indeed.

I think this software will need its own thread at the 3D modeling forum if there isn't one already.

Right now it just seems to make do with tri meshes. Would be nice if it makes displacement and normal maps for base meshes in the future. But no complaints.

@pauljs75 my Orange Alien thing, thinks your noseless thing is hot.  They should go on a date together.