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[4R6, Mac OS] Can't reset Zbrush-interface. All screwed up even after new install

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#1

Hi,

my problem is this: I tried to optimize the behavior of the panels in the sidetray because I wanted to get rid of this annoying constantly necessary scrolling up and down for jumping between options within the tools panel and/or other panel’s options.

So I activated in the preferences

“One open palette”
“One open subpalette”
and
“palette popup”
“subpalette popup”

I wanted to get rid of the latter two, because that is even worse than scrolling. So I disabled those two in the preferences (which did not show the subpanels again!), saved the config and restarted ZBrush, because I thought that would bring back the subpanels. It did not.

Problem: See Screenshot. All subpalettes are missing and I can not open the appropriate subpanels in the preferences palette to change that again.

I tried so far:

  1. “Init ZBrush”
    Result: It removed my custom brush-icons in the GUI, but did not show the subpanels again.

  2. deinstall ZBRush with the deinstaller, deleted the waste bin and reinstalled from 4R4 over 4R5 to 4R6 again with the ZUpgrader.
    Result: STILL THE SAME! :-((((

How can I get a default-ZBrush installation back please?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Olaf

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#2

Try Restore Standard UI? Shift + L click may bring up the subpallettes in Preferences. Also in upper right of UI are alternative UI’s. Hope you get sorted soon, more fun playing with it than on it.

#3

It’s because you don’t have a tool loaded. Load up a tool (model) and the panels should open up. I’ve had the same issue and once I loaded a tool the sub-panels were available again.

Context sensitive menus are nice but sometimes they can be confusing when something doesn’t show up.

#4

Ah I just realized my solution was to a different issue, didn’t notice the panels missing in the preference section. The missing panels in the tools section is probably fixed by what I posted earlier.

Try deleting the cfg files in the User/Shared/ZBrushData/ZStartup/ folder. Make backup copies just in case. Start Zbrush again and it should rewrite the files with the default settings.

#5

Thank you both so much for your fast help. :slight_smile:

The solution was:

I had overlooked the files in the Shared-Folder, when I deleted the ZBrush-config and -files. Because of that even my timemachine backup-playback did not work, too.

Everthing is fine now again. Back from quirky to fun now … :wink:

Olaf