Pixologic
Hopefully don’t get censored for griping about this… who else misses Pixologic? Every year a revolutionary update that change the entire world of organic modelling. Been years of underwhelming changes, and not enough quality of life fixes. Yes, the ipad app is pretty awesome, but most of us don’t really want that, certainly not at the expense of desktop improvements.
Here are some things I’d like to see:
PBR support
Non poly-based painting
Subfolders
INSTANCES
Real curves
Modifiers (smooth, vdb, bevel, array, you name it)
Do away with 2.5D (or just avoid it better).
Referenced geo
Could we just make empty subtools for importing and retopology?
Some advanced brush dynamics (multiple alphas)
Sadly like all 3D software it seems the longer it’s out the more it feels like plugins where everything is designed differently (eg noisemaker, polygroupit, redshift, Bevelpro)
What do you want ZBrush to add? Maybe someone will listen.
Edit: Gonna keep adding to my wishlist as I remember things…
-Don’t just remove the entire web library of free matcaps that was always there
-Lights that are lights.
-Proper cameras - or am I missing something?
-For the love of god can I just name my tools and save them without renaming the geo? How is this program the industry standard with things like this.
-some standard 3D transforms?
-Make mirror and weld have a positive/negative toggle for the love of sweet baby jesus?
-A standard scaling/unit system without a plugin?
-Make dynamesh have a polycount value? Joseph drust made a plugin for this but it wasn’t maintained
-Do away with primitive tools that can’t be deleted.
-Turn off spotlight projection by default or so help me lord.
-Make a not stupid way of getting rid of trash brushes from the palette (deleting them out of obscure system file paths)
-More non-destructive stuff - eg editable curve copies for threads and things?
-Disk read meshes that can refresh for booleans and the like/arrays
I shall await my job offer in the mail Maxon.