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MatCap™ technique from ZBrush

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Credits: Pixologic's MatCap, Charles Hollemeersch, Leonardo Covarrubias

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What if you could create a surface material and lighting environment simply by painting an object so that it looks like you want it to look? What if you could create that surface material by sampling points from an existing image that already features the material and lighting environment you want?

No tedious tweaking of numerical material values.
No need to set up any lights.

For a great many (probably the majority) materials and lighting environments, this is exactly what MatCap™, a ZBrush proprietary feature, allows you to do.

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/materials-lights-rendering/materials/matcap/matcap-basics/

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MatCapDx11.zip
06.10.16 [15:58 UTC] by catweasel | 1079 downloads
Dx11 Version (only)

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MatCapZBrush.zip
25.03.13 [13:06 UTC] by misak | 1452 downloads

metrowave 25/03/2013 - 15:39

Brilliant! I like Matcap in Zbrush...

Sample Matcaps by Scarbini: http://www.federicoscarbini.com/wp/download

Urbankind 25/03/2013 - 18:17

Thank you :)

catweasel 27/03/2013 - 21:53

Thats really very good :)
Preset materials are really useful!

unc 28/03/2013 - 12:29

Thanks for bringing this up:) useful stuff

sven 04/04/2013 - 15:28

Nice! Where are those sphere maps from?

misak 05/04/2013 - 08:47

I found this lightmaps in google.
You can make some in C4d, Max and other 3d soft.

Also you can use ZBrush. I found many presets for it.
One of them you can found in comments.
But I could not get the desired result in ZBrush

sven 05/04/2013 - 11:28

But are they copyrighted? Couldn't find them.

DiMiX 06/04/2013 - 18:55

for c4d users: https://vimeo.com/32444296

DiMiX 18/10/2013 - 20:04

howto add alpha pin to shader? possible?

robe 21/10/2013 - 19:12

I love this shader!
Also you can create your custom matcap texture realtime and achieve some kind of lighting:

Takuma 03/09/2018 - 08:30

Tried this in EX9 and looks amazing!!
Wanna try this out in DX11, How do i apply Binormals and Tangents to vertex noise applied geometry?

Takuma 09/09/2018 - 13:36

Not sure if this is the right way, but kinda worked with DX11.
But no luck with vertex noise.

MatCap™ technique from ZBrush

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