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my brush palette is now minute - help! [Solved]

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#1

The other day I made my zbrush window smaller so as to follow a tutorial on a web page (I’m on a 13" macbookpro)
and since then , though I have made my window full size again my brush palette remains small and the name of the brush are unreadable as only a few letters for each show.
I have reinit zbrush, checked I had not accidentaly save the narrow window as a cutom ui for startup… nothing!

if any of you have an idea of what is happening, please let me know, I saw nothing in the troubleshooting pages, but perhaps I missed something.

Many thanks to all!
U

#2

Could you show a complete screen shot of your interface? See http://www.zbrushcentral.com/announcement.php?f=101

Also, what is your display resolution?

#3

Aurick, many thanks for your posting and my sincere apologies for missing the rule about posting info and a screen grab. It makes perfect sense, my bad for not thinking of that.
I enclose a grab with the brush palette open - it USED to fill almost all of my screen. I haven’t changed anything in my mac setup. Resolution: 1280x800, macbook pro 2.4 ghz core2duo 8 megs ram lion 10.7.2
The problem is I can’t read the name of the brushes anymore.

Many many thanks!
U
please forgive my terrible english

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#4

That is not a complete screenshot. You cut off the top. If you are worried about the number in the upper left corner, it is not a serial number.

#5

Oh good - I was worried about my investement ending up in torrent-land!

here is the full screenshot then with apologies for my ignorance.

Thanks for the info.
U.

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#6

I think you’ve inadvertently turned off Preferences>Interface>Wide Buttons. Turn it on and save the config (Shift+Ctrl+i). You’ll need to restart ZBrush to see the effect.

#7

Just tried that … nope, sorry, it doesn’t change the problem:(

but thanks for the suggestion!
U

#8

Press Preferences>Config>Restore Standard UI and then Preferences>Config Restore Custom UI.

#9

done… no change :cry:small_orange_diamond:cry:

voodoo in zbrush UI?

many thanks in any case!

#10

I’ve no idea why your interface is stuck with a small brush palette. It should have gone back to its default size when you reset your ZBrush window and certainly should not have ‘stuck’ after a restart. The only other thing I can think of to try is deleting the ZStartup/ConfigFiles/ZBrushWindowStartupSize.cfg file and restarting ZBrush.

#11

thanks Marcus, I’m going to try that - cheers!
U

#12

You need to increase the size of the ZBrush window, or reduce the number of brushes.
ZBrush will use wide-icons if (and only if) your window is large enough to contain wide-icons palettes.

#13

Thanks for you answer, I did not add brushes between the time the window was “normal” and the time it shrunk. I wish there was a way to grab the edge of the brush palette and ûll to make it larger but it doesn’t seem to be possible (or am I a klutz?)

thanks for any info you have
U

#14

I think Support is referring to the size of the ZBrush window. Even still, I think it would be worth temporarily removing any Brushes you have in the ZStartup/BrushPresets folder. Restart ZBrush and see if your wide buttons are restored, then if all is OK, add the brushes back a few at a time. If you find that the number of brushes is causing the issue, leave some out.

#15

great idea Marcus, I’ll try that as soon as I’m back in front of the sculpting machine!

cheers

#16

at last I identified the problem thanks to support, Marcus and their ideas: I looked in the brush preset folder were I have 2 bruhes of mine, thinking the cause of the problem could not be there… well what do you know? somehow 2 zproject files ended up saved in that folder (big ones). I moved them and…
lo and behold all is back to normal.

Thanks again guys, this is a great community!

U

#17

Great, glad you got it sorted and thanks for letting us know.