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Help: Problems with brush intensity and size - everything behaves lower than expected

Hello I’m hoping someone can help me out.

I have been using ZBrush on and off as a hobbyist for the past year or so with no problems, but I am well aware there is a lot about ZBrush that I don’t know/use.

Enough background…

The problem I am experiencing seems to be two fold:

  1. that brushes are only effecting the mesh at about 20% the diameter of brush size setting (red circle), even taking in to account the focal shift.

  2. that the intensity of the brushes is also considerable reduced, I have checked the intensity slider. Even the mask pen at 100% intensity is only operating at greatly reduced percentage maybe 25%

I don’t know if I have done enough to describe the problem, but in short it is as if all drawing operations are at a reduced size and intensity compared to the settings and their visual representation i.e. red/yellow/blur cursors.

I have gone through all the various settings looking for things that could be causing this, but all the obvious things seem to be set correctly. I have also tried re-initializing ZBrush (Prefs menu), this has also proved unsuccessful.

The problem manifested itself on 4R6, in an attempt to fix this I have updated to 4R6 p2.

Hopefully there is an obvious answer, as this is preventing me from working.

Thanks in advance.

C.

PC or Mac? Document size? Brush modifiers can alter their behavior in great ways. No image…

what is the scale of your object? It sounds like it is huge.

tool.preview
Your model should fit within this window.

If it doesn’t
you can try tool.deformations.unify
see if that fixes the problem.
If it does, then your scale is either too large, or too small.

hope this helps.

Hi, thanks for everyone who replied.

They gave me the hint to check the document, now I’m not exactly sure what the problem was because it was affecting multiple tools and indeed projects. But creating a “new document” has solved the problem.

Thanks all

C.