[Bf-committers] User added Metcaps, finished??

[Chris Lee]

You cannot use the baked AO to UV map and masking in a sculpt workflow, no.
It is an interesting technique though for visualising a final sculpt.
However the basic setup of any matcap as a texture is so simple, it can
take less than a minute.
I just found this, which provides all the details at a glance:
http://sozomaika.deviantart.com/art/Blender-Matcap-material-tutorial-431268608

Just for reference, you can do this in cycles:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?303899-SOLVED-matcap-in-cycles-with-nodes

Plus if you wanted to use nodes to colour the recessed areas procedurally,
you could use a colour ramp.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?305648-Cycles-Height-based-material

In theory you could combine the matcap and colour ramp technique, to get a
procedural version of the previous video, but I have not tried to do it.

Regards,
Chris Lee

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On 30 March 2015 at 22:58, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Chris Lee <infin8eye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried creating a matcap texture? At least until there is a
> change.
> > I really like this tutorial as it covers the basic setup but takes it
> > further by adding AO to mask another matcap.
> >
> > Combining and creating GLSL Matcap Materials:
> https://youtu.be/FOqEZAwju9U
> >
> > Very cool but it is a baked UV map so you can't use it in sculpt,
> correct?
>
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