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3D Fractals in ZB2 :]

Hi everybody!

I been messing around some with fractals lately and found a way to export 3d fractals generated with Xenodream into 3d programs such as C4D and ZB2 :slight_smile: so i made me a fractal last night, exported it to C4D, increased the polycount to 1.5 million and imported it into ZB2 for rendering with the excellent cavityshader from this forum (credits to the creator for that one). And this is what i came up with. I’m quite happy with it even tho it’s not a full 100% ZB2 model creation, however i hope it’s ok i post it here anyways since i rendered it with ZB2.
Cheers!

/ Max

Ancient_Fractal_Seashell_ZB2_Rendered.jpg

whats is the shader you used for thsi? I m looking for a nice stone shader, this one looks great…

Hey, yea i used this excellent shader which does very well on all kinda stonework or old archeologic artifacts with some tweaking :wink:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=5515&highlight=sandstone

…make some fractal things with the Zplace2 script of Cameyo :slight_smile:
Look at in my signature :slight_smile:
Pilou

Hi and thanx for your reply

I looked at the script you suggested to me and it looks nice for the things it can do. However what i would like is if someone who’s skilled with scripting in ZB2 put together a real fractal generating script using proper forumlas which are free on the net to automatically and randomly generate a few basic types of 3d fractals which could be rendered within ZB2.

That’d be really kewl since some fractal shapes such as the seashell type i made can be useful for creating scene or object details :slight_smile: and i’m sure ZB2’s scripting is powerful enough to be capable of pulling such a job off. Atleast i hope so…

If i were capable of scripting then i’d do this myself, however if anyone’s up to the challenge of putting together a real fractal generator script for ZB2 then i’m sure there’s alot of us that would be happy to use it for our creations.

Sorry i type so much but i can’t make this any shorter heh :slight_smile: however i tested the script you told me about, and when using this one then you sorta “draw” the fractal shape yourself which takes the whole idea of generating random shapes based on a pre-specified set of basic forumlas and parameters idea away heh… i don’t wanna get too techy now with this but it’s a really interesting field which should be explored further

/ Max

…that Cameyo can do that :wink:
It’s will just an add function to his powerful Zplace toy ! :cool:
Pilou

Cameyo spent alot of time trying to get a random generator going…shoot now I forget the feature you might want to try.

I haven’t had a chance to really play with the new rev I yet but am sure with some tweaking you can get some true fractals.

But yeah it would be cool to have a zscript for that.

…thread ? (very similar to your post :wink:
Pilou