Props | Rocks/Boulders - Zbrush Exercise

Tools used: 3dsmax, Zbrush, Photoshop

For this project, I'll be practicing on environmental objects that I could make variety of textures depending on season or place. I will start with a regular rock (dry) then with moss (wet) and snowed up.

This will be my reference.

Here's the base low poly geometry in 3dsmax to be exported to zbrush.

Here's a pass on painting textures in Zbrush for the dry version (hand paint).
Played around with the noise ramps to get close to the scale and spread I wanted.

Rocks with snow

Rocks with moss

Textures and Normals

My starting texture is fully painted, used some preset and custom alpha brushes to get what I want. Started with solid color I wanted and then hand painted some light and dark areas as a start. Added noise and other small details. Later on I baked the ambient occlusion.

Used the base texture and I used both sampled snow texture I got from a free texture site and paint brush.

I also used both sampled moss texture and paint brush on this version.

I used multimap exporter to get all my maps in one process and nicely name order.