Ok, hmmm…you almost sound like you are choosing the regular sphere tool instead of the zsphere tool. The red sphere is the zsphere tool.
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Select the tool.
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Draw the first zsphere onto the screen.
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Go to the Transform pallette. The box under the crosshairs is the Transform mode. Click that.
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Go to Draw Pallette. Drag the draw size slider to 1.
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Go to your canvas and click and drag ontop of the zsphere that is sitting there. Another sphere will appear while dragging. When it gets to the size of the first sphere release your mouse.
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Drag your cursor around the canvas while to rotate the two linked zspheres.
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In the Transform pallette, click on the M button. That is the move button. Go back to the zspheres on the canvas and click one and drag it away from the other one.
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Release the mouse and click the A button on your keyboard. You will now see a preview of what you have just made. Click the A key again and you will resume back to regular zsphere mode so to speak.
Now that is a simple 2 zsphered thing you just made. The way you added onto the first sphere is essentially how you do it all.
Now if you click on one of the spheres between the two main Zspheres…it will highlight and you continue with the above steps on that highlighted sphere to add more limbs to your object.
There are several scripts that can be run to show more in depth on modeling with zspheres in the quicklinks section. Quicklinks is located on top of each page on this site. Very handy stuff there.
Look up scripts for creating hands and run those. I think it was Pusgetty and or Bonecradle that did some excellant hand scripts. Put show actions on before running the scripts on your Script pallette. Any more questions feel free to ask the forum. Always someone around usually that can help.
