This looks like a pretty powerful ZBrush add-on, allowing you to swap a model or portion of a model back and forth between ZBrush and Maya or Cinema4D without having to do any exporting or importing. Looks like it'll allow you to build your model's high-level and low-level details in parallel, essentially turning ZBrush into a plugin for Modo/C4D/Maya (with other apps expected to follow).

Video sneak preview of the forthcoming tool:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showth ... p?t=071414

supposedly its already set to go in zbrush3.5 r3

and even better I read a post that says the Maya part of the pipe is done as well.. ie export as a maya ascii file and all thats needed goes with it.

I have yet to try it but I'm installing Maya on my new PC now to give it a go.

I'll post if it works.

C

From what I've seen it works pretty well. One of the guys at work has used it to go back and forth with displacements and it cuts out a lot of the annoying steps you used to have to do.

yeah I knew about the displacements, but I'm more interested in the re-topology tools. I want to know if you can rewire the mesh and transfer it back to zbrush without the zbrush subdivisions blowing up.

C