saveing Zsphere mesh ruins texture

[Polaris30]

Hi,

I made a Zsphere sculpture, and textured it by just useing colorize, and painting mesh ion 3d…

Then I made my biggest mistake , I saved my work, and after save it turned Zsphere adaptive shin preview off, when I turned it back on the texture was scrambled.

This is not the first time. sometimes when I save it after sculpting the adaptive mesh it ruins all my work also, it turns off adaptive skin preview and forgets all the hours of work I put into it, when I turn it back on…

What steps do I take to avoid ruining my work by saveing it?

SYSTEM SPECS:

INtel pentium 4, 2.6GHZ non HT
2GB ddr 133mhz ram
ATI radon gfx card.
Lame integrated sound chip by intel…
ata hard disk, lots of free space
Windoze XP

Thanks in advanced for help

[Pixolator]

Hi Polaris30,
Are you asking about ‘Vertex coloring’ or ‘Texturing’ ? Vertex coloring is not saved with a preview mesh, you will need to “Make Adaptive Skin” in order to retain the vertex coloring.
If you have used a texture then your work is not ‘ruined’, the ‘scrambling’ is most likely a result of the UV mapping recalculated for a texture size which is different than the one which was originally used.

Try the following steps…

1. Load the ZSphere tool with the texture.
2. deselect the texture.
3. preview the mesh. (since texture is not selected, ZBrush will now calculate UV coordinates for a 1024x1024 map-size ).
4. re-select the texture.

The texture should now be correctly mapped.

ZSphere Texturing Tip: When you plan to use texture with size other than 1024x1024, you should create the texture before previewing and texturing the mesh. This will allow ZBrush to calculate optimal UV mapping for the currently selected texture (when texture is not selected, ZBrush will calculate mapping for a 1024x1024 texture size)

Hope this helps

-Pixolator

[Polaris30]

It works!

Thanks Pixolator

your hint let me re-use my texture.

Thank you very much I was really panicking there

Have a good one