Master the pipeline for creating game assets with ZBrush, xNormal, and nDo in this comprehensive tutorial led by expert Galen Davis.
This course is a fun, quick dive into creating game assets! You'll learn how to work with ZBrush, xNormal, and nDo2, finishing up by showcasing your model in Marmoset. It's all about turning your ideas into cool games!
Learn the pipeline of creating game assets using these powerful applications!
In this accelerated tutorial, Galen Davis takes us through a unique pipeline showing us how to export and UV inside of ZBrush, bake out normal maps and Ambient Occlusion using xNormal, and covers an introduction to texturing using nDo2. Lastly, we wrapup the model for presentation inside Marmoset!
About the Instructor:
Galen Davis is an Environment Artist currently living and working in Southern California. He is contributing to several AAA titles and is experienced in Next Generation Pipelines. Games and art are his absolute passion.
Learn the basics of baking your game assets using the pipeline of ZBrush, xNormal, and nDo
7 Lectures
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It look clear and understable for now. So it´s ok
Learned a great deal about some software that I will have to look at getting to improve my workflow.
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This tutorial clearly outlines one possible workflow to achieve great texturing results from models created in ZBrush. It makes use of plenty of other software like NDO, DDO, XNormals and Marmoset. Content is well structured and relatively easy to follow. Keep in mind, this requires a user to have a grasp on at least the basic functionality of ZBrush to be useful.
It would have been nice to have some explanations why a certain path was chosen, for example how DDO normal maps are better than the ones ZBrush bakes for you, why smoothing groups need to be reassigned, etc.
That would have furthered my knowledge of the topic even more.
great tutorial, learned alot of new ways to work with game assets.
only negativ/critic is that i wanted a bit about polypainting and sculpting of the object
This is great, as it does tackle the texturing and exporting, baking etc. using several different tools to get the end result, and the end result is impressive.
I didn't realize all of what Xnormal can do, but now I will be using it more.
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Salome K.
I loved the "Unified skin" in ZBrush and the tips on normal maps at the end of the course. Unfortunately I don't use 3DSMAX or Quixel and I barely use XNormal so there is a lot I don't understand in this tutorial. But the teacher is great.