Issue with Topology Brush in Joseph Drust's MOLLE Tutorial

[system]

Hi Folks,

Really hoping someone will be able to help with this. I’ve been going through Joseph Drust’s awesome tutorials in the ZClassroom on Pixologic’s site and I’ve run into an issue in the MOLLE Tutorial with the Topology Brush.

In the following image I’ve framed a section of the mesh using Stroke->Curve Functions->Frame Mesh.

Using the Topology Brush I should be able to hold ALT and drag across the ends to clear the loop from those areas, leaving me with two distinct, straight curves which I can apply an insert mesh to. But when I do that, this happens:

I’m stumped. I tried various tweaks, but always got the same result. Odds are its a really obvious thing that I’m missing, but if anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks ahead of time.

-Johnny

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[vivaldi0]

I am stumped as well. First I get what looks like a hazard stroke(black and yellow) not Green circles. When I try to go to the Topology brush and remove a stroke, I get either a wierd mesh or just end up removing the whole stroke. I have tried to edit every type of setting in the stroke pallette but with no success!..any help please…this is in regards to the Joseph Drust Molle tutorial.

[Cryrid]

4R5 made some changes to how frame mesh works, and whether this is intentional or an undesired sideeffect, the resulting curve now seems to be a single curve that connects back to itself instead of having a new point/segment at every vertex of the framed mesh.

You might have to use the topology brush to draw out a few segments where the border verts are first, basically cutting it up a bit before you attempt to shorten it.

[vivaldi0]

4R5 made some changes to how frame mesh works, and whether this is intentional or an undesired sideeffect, the resulting curve now seems to be a single curve that connects back to itself instead of having a new point/segment at every vertex of the framed mesh.

You might have to use the topology brush to draw out a few segments where the border verts are first, basically cutting it up a bit before you attempt to shorten it.

Thank you for the information. Yes, it appears that they have done something different. They should be documenting this, as there are so many features that when one gets into a workflow that, if one thing changes, it destroys that very workflow. I have read all of the “what’s new” and change logs without seeing this very issue. I love Zbrush, but there needs to be some detailed information on just what they change with every revamp.