Moon testing *A bit of an Update*

[RealUser]

Yeah, the first one is definitely a moon. The second one is a bit too smooth. Some craters would touch it up, I would say too. Good work, I am curious to see the results of your experiments.

[Will]

hmm Photoshop won't let me turn the TIFF into any other format which is weird, any idea on what to do guys?

[dhavalmistry]

you can email me the tiffs and I can try something from my end....

[Will]

How big of an attachment can you get?

[dhavalmistry]

20 MB

[Will]

I can probably get it that small, might have to use a ZIP though. Thanks man

[dhavalmistry]

hey Will....what format you want them converted to???

**EDIT**

I have converted the tiff tile to BMP and ended up with 16MB file which when zipped, bumps down to 6MB

by the way the file is a 32-BIT TIFF, that is probably the main reason TG2 wasnt taking it. In order to convert it into different file format, you have to bring it down to 8-BIT

To do that all you have to do is in photoshop,

Image -> Mode -> 8-BIT

you can try this on your computer and see if it works, if not then I will email you the converted file.

I would suggest you to leave the file in TIFF format, that way you wont lose as much detail as you would do by converting it to BMP or JPG format.

[Will]

Hmm so it was the that fact that it was 32 bit huh. Anyway thanks for that, I converted it and I'm playing with it now, still trying to get the size right though.

[Will]

Anyidea on how to get the texture to wrap properly? it seems like spherical projection isn't working out that well any ideas?

[bigben]

I'm guessing that's because it's 16-bit? AFAIK TG2 only supports 8 bit RGB or greyscale TIFFs (I use LZW compression with no problems)

[Will]

nope I changed it to 8-bit via dhavalmistry's instructions. my problem now is that the maps resembles a unfolded box (if you were going to make a box out of paper) and thats not fitting the planet properly, I've tried a bunch of things but I'm still having trouble. I've worked with square images to displace planets before but not this irregular shape.

[Oshyan]

It may be that specific support for Zbrush displacement maps will be necessary, at least for projection. It doesn't sound like they're made for standard spherical projection. If I recall correctly Zbrush has a unique way of making a "sphere", so perhaps this is why. If you can find out the actual method of texture projection that should be used that would help.

- Oshyan

[j meyer]

Hi,
if i got it right Will is using a polysphere and these are nothing
but a subdivided and spherized cube (unfolded it would be a
cross of 6 squares),so maybe a cube map would work,but i´m
not shure ´cause i didn´t tested it yet.

[Oshyan]

Yes, I was thinking cube possibly. Nonetheless we don't have cubic mapping at the moment, so no help there. Perhaps there's a way in Zbrush to convert to other projections/mappings?

- Oshyan

[SeerBlue]

Here is a link to info on zbrush displacement maps, Will, in case you haven't seen it yet
http://www.zbrush.info/site/index.php/Tool:Displacement_Subpalette
and one for displacement exporter, though I don't know if you are using 3.1 which it is in, so no need to download it.
http://www.zbrush.info/docs/index.php/Displacement_Exporter#Download

SeerBlue