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Picker palette: how can I use it?

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#1

Hi wonderful Z community.
ZBrush is a fascniating mistery day by day
and for me the hardest mistery is to
understand the purpose of the picker palette
and how I can integrate it in my workflow this tool.
Can someone give me a practical example of
its use?
Thanks a lot to everybody.

#2

The picnic zbrush picnic script has a lot of useful stuff about the picker palette if you go through it

#3

Here is a Pixolator tutorial that uses it:Felt tutorial. Scroll down nearly to the bottom of the page.

Another way in which its useful is with the fiberbrush. After you bake an image, you may want to turn on “continous” in the Picker Palette color selector. Then, as you use the fiber brush, the colors beneath are used.

#4

It’s also useful for picking out materials and colors that were already used in your ZBrush document.

For example if there is something of a certain color somewhere in your document and you have chaged the color in your color pallette, you can click in the color swatch in the picker pallette and drag over to the object that has the color you want. Now you have the same exact color back in your color pallette now. In this mode it works much like the “eyedropper” tool found in most paint programs.

#5

Adding to what WingedOne said about picking colors, if you hold ALT while picking the color, it will grab the shaded color. Another words, the color that you see on the screen, not what the object actually is.

#6

Thanks for sharing this useful information. I have been using the picker too recently and find it very useful. However, I did not know about using the Alt key with it.

#7

Here’s a use that just occurred to me – and probably wouldn’t have if I hadn’t seen this question asked.

How many times have you drawn a main object on one layer, then started to work on a new layer – only to discover that the new work doesn’t interact with the pixols on the other layer? So then you have to manually move and orient things to look right. The Picker would change that. Set the first section (Depth/Orientation) to Continuous. Set the overall mode at the bottom to Other. Now everything that you do on your new layer will automatically pick the depth and orientation from your other existing layers – in effect you’re drawing on the objects even though the objects don’t exist in the current layer.

I can think of all kinds of places where this would be handy! And now I can’t wait to try it myself…

#8

this is a FANTASTICO tip, Aurick! thank you!!! :+1: :+1: :+1:

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