PBR -- Material Value Chart -- (Spec/Glossiness Translation)

PBR Glossiness/Specular translation by me. The original version can be found here.

ZBrush -- Add Eyes (or another primitive) to a Tool

1. Select the Insert Sphere Brush and draw in the eyes
   
2. After Drawing in the Eyes, they are Automatically Masked.
   
3. Subtool/Split Unmasked Points to make the eyes a SubTool 
   

ZBrush -- Polymesh to Dynamesh Workflow

Create Dynamesh:

1. Select Polymesh Tool
2. Geometry/Dynamesh/Dynamesh Button (Settings from image below)

Update Dynamesh:

1. Ctrl + Drag Outside of Model

ZBrush -- ZSpheres to Polymesh Workflow

1. Create ZSpheres Base Model 
   
2. Press "A" to preview resulting Polymesh (Adjust Density) 
   
3. Adaptive Skin/Make Adaptive Skin 
   
4. Select new skin mesh "Skin_ZSpheres*" Tool (created by previous step) 
   
5.  Tool/Make Polymesh 3D 
   

ZBrush Navigation

• Free Rotate – Click & drag Background
• Move – Alt+Click & drag Background
• Constrain to 90-degree rotation – Click+drag, press Shift
• Scale – Alt+Click, Release Alt, drag Background
• Rotate around Z-axis – Shift, Click, release Shift, drag

Local only GIT source control

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-git-and-dropbox-together-effectively

~/project $ git init 

~/project $ git add .

~/project $ git commit -m "first commit"

~/project $ cd ~/Dropbox/git

~/Dropbox/git $ git init --bare project.git

~/Dropbox/git $ cd ~/project

~/project $ git remote add origin ~/Dropbox/git/project.git

~/project $ git push -u origin master

Zmodeler Tips

On Polygons - Default Zmodeler action:

• Drag= Extrude
• Drag& Shift = Move
• Drag& Ctrl = Detach (by duplicating)
• Drag& Alt = Define Temporary Polygroup

On Edges:

• Click = Insert Edge Loop
• Click & Shift = New Edge Loop is Perpendicular
• Click & Alt = Delete Edge Loop

Filters In Substance Designer