I’ve done several forum searches and read through the entire “Questions & Troubleshooting for ZBrush 4R7” thread to see if anyone else ran across this, but didn’t find anything related; so please forgive me if the answer is somewhere else, and point me to it if you would be so kind. I actually posted this in that thread first, but noticed there are some posts before mine going back to at least a few months ago that do not seem to have been answered, so I don’t think it’s being monitored anymore…
I recently updated to 4r7 from 4r2 (I’ve had zbrush for a number of years without really having the time to dive in and learn the program - this is sad, I know).
I was finally able to get a cintiq, and after a long difficult time of troubleshooting, I managed to get the drivers installed correctly to recognize the new device; unfortunately, I had to blow away all of my express key settings from my intuos 4 in the process, which I set up several years ago when I first dabbled in zbrush. So, I’ve been setting up express keys from scratch in preparation of following some tutorials (which I started setting up before I actually remembered zbrush was out of date). I realize I’ll probably change them once I get to using zbrush, but I need something there initially.
I ran into a few issues after updating:
First - I noticed that the “[” and “]” hotkeys to adjust the draw size only work one time each before they stop functioning altogether… only restarting zbrush seems to make them work again; however, they each stop working after a single use. I also tried manipulating the draw size slider to see if it would “refresh” the hotkey or something, but it didn’t seem to.
To be clear, I can still adjust the draw size with the slider, but the two hotkeys do not work (neither on my touch strip, nor on my keyboard).
Second - in 4r2, I had a hotkey set up on my touch strip to adjust the focal shift size with the “9” and “0” keys. Now, I don’t think this is a standard hotkey because it took some digging to even find it again in 4r2 - I found it in the “Zplugin” menu under “Misc Utilities” which seems to be different now in 4r7.
Since I set up those intuos express keys so long ago, I honestly do not remember what I did to get it, but I suspect it was downloading a plugin and setting up those hotkeys through the plugin menu item… Why is there not a hotkey for the focal shift (and z intensity, for that matter) by default?
Anyway… the misc utilities seems to adjust the incremental value of the draw size with the standard “[” and “]” hotkeys (currently set to a value of 4 instead of 10), but it no longer has buttons/sliders for focal shift, z intensity, or rgb intensity. Is it possible to set up some hotkeys to increase/decrease the focal shift? If so, how? OR is there a better way than using some hotkeys for a touch strip with a cintiq?
Third - This is just a minor oddity… not really a huge problem (and I’m not even sure if it’s 4r7 specific) - whenever I use “store config” and reopen zbrush, the menu items stored in the left and right trays reverse their order… It’s not a huge deal because I can just store the config again and they’ll be in the intended order from then on - like I said, it’s just odd - looks like the list of items in the trays is getting written/read in reverse order for some reason. I don’t really need a fix for that one; just letting the developers know if it’s not been mentioned before.
My primary concern is the draw size not functioning, but I would also like some assistance with getting some focal shift adjustment to work - thank you for taking the time to read the post and for any assistance you give.
