The release adds a non-photorealistic rendering toolkit, new alpha modelling functionality, a universal camera, support for folders, and updates to the ZRemesher retopology system. The background is a DAZ Studio IRAY spherical render of Stonemason’s Sci-Fi Corridor 2013.Pixologic has unveiled ZBrush 2019, the next major update to its digital sculpting software. Here’s a small sampling of 360 backgrounds I rendered using this method, the tiny jpegs are there as the tiffs won’t show preview thumbnails: If you are having trouble with the background not being visible except when you render, switch from ‘preview’ to ‘best’ under render, wait until it finishes scanning out the screen in ‘best’, then switch back to ‘preview’ - it should now be always visible in real time. Just be warned that camera placement really matters when rendering the spherical background, if the camera’s near the ground, pointed upward - that’s pretty much what you’re stuck with, despite having 360 degrees to play around in. dae - so it’s great if you are, like me, a fan of Stonemason. You could say I’ve been using DAZ Studio since it was called Poser 2, so I have a decent catalog of environments to use for this (although lighting the older ones using IRAY is it’s own special problem) but it imports a lot of formats - this one was. I would suggest putting the lens settings in the name of each spherical render to help setting the camera in ZB, which I failed to do here, leading to a slight but noticeable scale mismatch. So if you render a 2:1 4K (4096x2048 minimum for clarity, but since we’re doing this for NPR renders, photorealism is not the goal) in DAZ studio using an IRAY camera set to spherical, it might take between 1 & 2 hours per render. I ended up doing this because the universal camera in ZB goes all autocrop if you try to get any extreme wide angles with a big mesh (like, say, an environment) and attempts to use the 2D backdrop function just crashes ZB (support replicated it, so it’s got a fix ticket in) but 360 backgrounds are fine up to 8K, mebbe higher. I finally tired of using free HDRi backgrounds and figured out how to make my own, these are only 360 degree spherical maps, not true HDRi, but I only wanted them for background images - not lighting there’s nothing stopping anybody from making them HDRi in post, though.
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