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Using the bump viewer material

Using the bump viewer material - ZBrush Tutorial

From the course: ZBrush: Tips & Tricks

Using the bump viewer material

- When sculpting in ZBrush, there are times when you might have overlapping detail. Maybe there's muscles on a character, but also scars on the skin. It could be hard to edit one of those details without affecting the other. With bump viewer, you can create the appearance of sculpted surface detail without affecting the real sculpting underneath. So let's see how it works. Okay so I've got a pretty realistic bull model here on my screen. And let's say I want to turn this into a mecha bull. So if it's going to be a robot bull, it's going to have different panel seams on it. There's going to be little screws or little divots or vent holes and things like that. So that would involve adding those kind of details on top of the anatomy that we've already got sculpted. Now I could add that on by just starting to sculpt it on, and that's fine, but if I want to change something about how the bull is sculpted, the new sculpting would destroy all that mech detail, where it would make it very…

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