ZFix - Could You Provide a Mac Version?

[Bruce Gregory]

I have been trying unsuccessfully for days to record a Zscript session using ZSpheres. Every one I've recorded plays back with gross errors. Perhaps you have already fixed this, but overlooked the Mac population: http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=004334
Could you provide us with a fix for this as well. Here is a sample script that does not play back successfully for me.
ZSphereFacialModel1.txt (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_file-1033416603uav.txt)

Thank you,

Greg Smith

[aurick]

Hi Bruce,

The Mac population wasn't overlooked. :) ZFix was a temporary, short-lived fix that was meant to correct problems with "fractional mouse movement" caused by things like recording while zoomed in on the canvas. This issue was resolved in version 1.5, and so ZFix will not correct any scripts that are recorded in 1.5.

If your ZScript recording is not working correctly for any scripts, try temporarily disabling your configuration file (by renaming it). Then try recording some test ZScripts. If your recordings then work correctly, you'll need to find the particular setting that is throwing them off. You can do so by making incremental changes to your configuration and doing tests until you find the source of the problems. Then let us know!

Meanwhile, I will test the script to see if I can locate a recording problem. If I can, I'll bring it to the developers' attention so that they can make sure that the bonus upgrade will not have the same problem.

[Bruce Gregory]

Aurick:

I don't think the problem is with my configuration file. I purposely did not store any new config file, but am using ZBrush 1.5 as it is configured upon download. There is no config file in the ZBrush root directory. Any other suggestions?

Bruce, Gregory

[aurick]

Could you show me what the result is SUPPOSED to look like? This will help me try and figure out where it went wrong.

Also, were you using Digits' ZSphere widgets at all when working on this?

[Bruce Gregory]

Aurick:

No, I started on my own from scratch with a new ZBrush start-up. In other words, ZBrush was already recording and at the end of the demo, I saved it with a new name.

Here is an image of both the ZSphere object and the adaptive skin that it generated.

file: http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1033423632bsw.jpg

And here is the .ztl file ABestSkinnyGuy.zip (http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_file-1033423812vhe.zip)

[milk]

When i make an adaptive skin, it dosen't do anything...what am i supposed to do?

[milk]

Oh, nm, i got it. :p

[aurick]

OK. So while watching the recording and comparing it to the original, I have the impression that the script starts to go subtly wrong from the very start, and that these difference compound. By the time it's about halfway through, it is distinctly off kilter, and by the end it is completely different. Is this your impression, as well? Or can you spot a point where it first starts to go bad?

[Bruce Gregory]

Aurick:

Everything seems to run well, (given that you don't check "minimal stroke", "minimal update"), until it gets to the part where the nostrils are being formed - after that it appears that instead of an individual ZSphere being enlarged, an entire "chain" is enlarged, as though the cursors was off just by a fraction, and clicked on the grey chain instead of the ZSphere itself. Because it changed the relative position of everything downline, all the clicks and drags are off at that point, creating the monster that you see.

Bruce, Gregory