Zbrush - Paiting on textures?

[dave-g--2]

Hey am I right in my understanding that Zbrush allows you to paint on textures in 3D and thereby allowing you to not have to worry about UVs but just paint onto a model as though it was a bit of pottery or something?

I've not had much of a look at Zbrush yet, but if that is actually possible, I might be forced to have a poke around there. Also, if this IS possible, what would be the outcome of exporting from Zbrush to Maya to rig up and animate... would textures come across as UVs in some manner so that the export looked the same in maya or something like Unity as in Zbrush?

Anyone able to clarify what is actually possible there?

Cheers.

[joojaa]

no its still needs uv's to transfeer the data into. It can create a tile for each face but tahst bad for filteringpurposes, lengthening your renders for no particular good reason. But maybe next versio supports ptex.

[dave-g--2]

Ah right, thanks Joojaa. I thought that sounded too good to be true. I'll keep my eyes open for that sort of ability in the future

So the usual procedure for Zbrush presently would be to sculpt your model, export it to Maya or whatever to texture and rig? And that means that Zbrush's painting tools are more for creating artwork rather than actual movie/game ready models?