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Problem with Editable Curve in 4R7

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#1

Hi… I’m trying to reproduce a task that is easily done in 4r6: Open DefaultSphere.ZPR. Standard brush, set to Stroke>Curve>Curve Mode ON. Set Stroke to DragDot. Draw curve on sphere. Click on curve… result is a stroke of the standard brush that follows the curve. The curve can be moved and the stroke will move with the curve on the surface.

If I try to do this is 4R7, clicking on the curve created with Curve Mode ON does nothing. Actually, it acts like the curve isn’t there and draws a single dot of my stroke right at the click location. If I move the curve, this single dot will follow the cursor and the curve will move with it normally as well, but there is no stroke along the curve.

I hope this is clear enough… It is reproducable after Preferences > Init Zbrush and restarting. I can always do it in 4R6, I cannot for the life of me get it to work in 4R7. I wonder if there is a possibility that I hosed a parameter somewhere buried deep in the UI that I won’t encounter for another year or two and that no one will answer this plea and I’ll never know if it’s a bug, user idiocy or I’m simply losing my mind. Please help.

#2

In case anyone else comes upon this post first, this behavior has been noted elsewhere in the forum, though no resolution is mentioned yet.

#3

Wanted to ask the same question: after 2 days of digging in docs, tons of youtube videos, guts of Z settings i found that the only way to do that is to press alt before you start to draw a curve. After you finish, you can drag it a bit and sometimes it works just fine(and sometimes not).

I don’t know what is the reason of that, since i cannot find any normal documentation to curves in docs at all, whole documentation is a huge mess.

#4

I looked through the PDF too for info on curve stuff, didn’t find what I wanted. :mad: I’d have to agree that a large PDF isn’t nearly as good as what most of us are accustomed to… A ‘real’ Help menu, like what used to be about the standard in any package.

#5

I’m experiencing the same problem in ZB47 with the curve brush functions. ZB46 works as expected.