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Creating your own Matcaps (a cool way to viz characters in Blender)
Posted by Lee Salvemini on Mar 12, 2016
Learn how to make our own ‘matcaps’! A great way to not only visualize models for sculpting and modeling but also animating and putting a scene together in the viewport!
[Download the characters and scene from this tutorial]
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Curious to know how to create a Matcap from scratch and also apply and render these in the Cycles renderer? Check out the tutorial extension below going into more detail on this!
[Download the files from this tutorial]
Comments (13)
Very useful tutorial, but the video title is Misleading: Creating your own matcaps (which I was looking forward to!), Shouldn’t it be : How to use a custom Matcap?
Maybe I will be able to add to this and make an extra tutorial on the creation!
That would be really really good.
I thought it would be easy and I tried in Blender by creating a sphere and put point light to give the Matcap effect but it did work out.
I will look forward to see what you can come up with.
thanks again.
I’ve created a tutorial extension with more info on these areas. Hopefully it adds a bit more to getting these setup easier 😀 Cheers!
True! I whipped up the title quickly and didn’t take into account the other context it would be taken, and how popular the idea of ‘creating’ custom matcaps from scratch is. I will update the title and on youtube 🙂 -Lee
Thanks for taking my comment into consideration.
Will this not work in Cycles?
Just added a tutorial extension with info for applying matcaps in Cycles Hope you like it!
Thanks!
Reflection mapping for a matcap? Should be Normal mapping..
Hi Jaroslav, for Blender’s UV reflection mode it actually seems to be normal mapping under a different name 🙂 Which means you can be in textured solid mode in multitexture and see the effect, rather than needing to hit ‘alt+z’ and be in GLSL mode. It’s very much my personal choice here for how I’m using these matcaps (not exactly their intended purpose).
Cheers,
Lee
this is interesting 😀
Hey Ach, thanks!! -Lee
