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MatCap materials overview

MatCap materials overview - ZBrush Tutorial

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MatCap materials overview

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- When you work in ZBrush you have two types of material you can use, Standard materials and MatCap materials. The difference between the two is simply that MatCap materials have the lighting baked into your model. Which provides you with pre-baked materials to work with on your model. And you can also expand this list by importing any user based materials or creating your own. So, let me show you how it works. So, right now I have my standard materials. And I have my MatCap materials, here. So, right now I have a MatCap gray here. So, if I want to change this, all I have to do is select one of these. So, I can actually scroll over any of these. And basically get a preview of what they're going to look like. So if, for example I want to grab the MatCap skin five. I can click on it, and now my model is in that particular MatCap material. Now if I do a BPR on it, this is what it looks like once it's rendered. But what if I wanted to change or create a new one from this one? What you…

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