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Help plz my scenes keep disappearing

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#1

It’s my first week in Zbrush, and it’s interspersed with feelings of extreme excitement and extreme disappointment, moments of absolute intuitiveness followed by absolute huh!?
Anyway, something I can’t figure out is why my whole working scene just disappears and erases my undo history, and if there is a way to return to my previous scene.

Here’s an example: I was working on a scene with multiple subtools. I clicked ‘make polymesh 3D’ in the tool palette then the whole scene disappeared, erased my undo history and left me with that one piece of geometry. The same thing happened yesterday when I tried to add a zsphere to the scene without appending it to the subtool palette.

So here’s my question. Can I get back to the previous scene? I have been using my quick saves to return to the scene, but that causes me to lose work.

Thanks for your help.

#2

When you are working on a Tool with multiple Subtools and then select another Tool from the Tool palette, lets say a Sphere for example, the canvas will clear and the Sphere will be drawn. The Tool you were working on hasn’t disappeared., it’s still in the Tool palette. Simply click on the large Tool icon and select your previous Tool you were working on. The same thing when you click “Make Polymesh3D”. Your previous Tool is still in the Tool palette. Once you get to know ZBrush more, you will realize the beauty of this workflow.

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#3

Thx Zber2. I’m sure you have answered this question countless times, since I’ve seen it all over the forums as well. But the real issue is when you don’t have the tool in the tool palette like I did in this instance. I looked into my lightbox and the quick save had not logged yet, so I lost the whole scene with the click of 2 buttons.

I would love to see Zbrush move to a tabbed interface like MODO. That’s a whole other subject, but MODO interface is amazing. Zbrush may be heading there, the 3 tabs on the top left show promise, but they are not exactly unified. I would like to see a dedicated 2.5D tab, so in my example above it would just move me to the 2.5D tab and the 3D tab would stay the same.

Ah well, guess I’ll do what everyone else is doing and learn to live with it. ;):+1:

#4

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?9095-NEWBIE-LESSON-ONE-The-Interface

#5

Thanks Doug,

I’m learning the ropes mostly by making a massive amount of mistakes. That thread was interesting, but too outdated. The link for part 2 which is 2.5D painting is no longer active, and it is exactly what I wanted to read about. Well, back to the grind.

#6

Made plenty of them here. Fought with the UI for a long time to decide what I wanted accessible, results at link below, lots of files :wink:
Painting and 2.5 D are fun.
Don’t neglect document layers :slight_smile: Have fun.