scenario-zbrush-paint-render

# ZBrush paint and render (texture and presentation artist) Expert paint in ZBrush is observation made systematic: color zones placed by what lies under the skin, pushed enough to survive the shader, judged on neutral and flat views, and baked at a resolution the mesh can hold. For an agent without a tablet most of it is buttons: fills at a chosen intensity through generated masks, zone images projected onto the mesh, and renders that are both measured and looked at. If a sibling skill named here is missing from your available skills, ask the user to install it (`npx skills add scenario-labs/skills --skill <name>`); unattended, proceed from tool schemas and flag the gap. **REQUIRED BACKGROUND:** scenario-zbrush-expert (bridge, stroke engine, review loop, 2026 traps). ## Stance (the expert delta) - **Paint last, at the top level.** Polypaint is one color per vertex: a lower level paints blurry, adding levels afterwards breaks it, and the map follows the point count (about 4M points per 2K map; 4K is wasted there) (FlippedNormals). - **Judge on neutral and flat.** SkinShade4 or MatCap White01, plus Flat Color. A tinted MatCap makes you overcompensate and the export looks wrong elsewhere (FlippedNormals, Pablo). - **Structure before beauty.** Start with a pure yellow, red and blue zone map placed by anatomy: bone and fat yellow, thin tissue red, hollows blue, more blue low on a man. Then cover it with skin color at low opacity so the zones shimmer through (Pablo). For an age...