hi

i’ve been having a lot of fun in mud box .:)…
i have a base mesh tht i created in cinema 4d ( a pupa ) ..i added all the details i needed, in Mudbox

but now i cant seem to be able to get a decent Disp. map into cinema 4d ..

anyone know of a workflow tutorial or would care to guide me a bit ...?…

i’d be really gr8full

thnks

You’ll need to export your map in 16bits, C4D doesn’t handle Mudbox’s 32 bits very well at the moment.

Hi,

what is the exact problem? Does the displacement map not show or has it any artefacts or anything else? Maybe you can post a screenshot or render of the “wrong” displacement map?!

By the way… I recommend using the “Riptide” Plugin for C4D for importing and exporting *.OBJ-Meshes. Otherwise your meshes may cause problems.

http://skinprops.com/riptide.php

Another thing: I usually have to set the subdivision level for the low resolution mesh in the Mudbox Baker to “Good” at least. Othwise my displacement maps get strange artefacts…

Hope I could help you. As mentioned above - if you post a “problem” displacement render I could give you some more hints.

regards,
Marco

hi have attched screen shots . of the prob ....

and now wierd stuff seems to happening in the MB workspace wen i try to sculpt .......have attached an screen shot of tht too ( and it seems to be happening only to the Pupa obj file i used as base )

errr....the Displacement render type setting in C4D shows - RGB xyz ....it was actually intensity centered” ...forgot to change it wen i i took the screen shot

any suggestions ...?

thnks

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Mmm… first you need to check “round geometry” if you want to avoid the facetting in C4D.
How are your UVs laid out? Seems something has gone very wrong here, especially when looking at your object in Mudbox.
What did you do to have it all stretched out like this?

Do you have triangles? overlapping UVs?

my UV map ...

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Hi,

how did you export your mesh from C4D? If you didn

Hi again,

I

hey

marcotronic - ..thnks a lot for taking the trouble

i figured a few things out in the process .

1. c4d"s .obj exporter is not as good as it should >!

2. i forgot to mention tht i had downloaded the riptide plugin before u mentioned it , and the artifact / crazy stuff happening in the viewport was because of the scale . i overlooked it in the riptide export option dialog. i set it to 1 ( was 1000 ) n it seems to be fine now

3. i managed to get the disp map into c4d ...( yippeeee ) but seem to have lost sum of the details ...guess i’ll have to experiment.

thnks a lot

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Excellent! Thanks for the workflow!