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Startup Macro Help

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#1

I’ve been trying to setup a Startup Macro on my new work computer to define the startup material, brushes and brush settings but am having a bit of a problem in that it seems that a portion of the macro runs twice upon starting ZBrush. The startup macro does work and sets everything as I want but it runs through drawing the 3D object and then defining the brushes from there twice.

The Startup macro looks like this:

//ZBRUSH MACRO - Recorded in ZBrush version 4.5
[IButton,???,"Press to run this macro. Macros can be aborted by pressing the ëescí key.",
[IShowActions,0]
[IConfig,4.5]
[IPress,Material:MatCap Red Wax]
[IPress,Material:Skin]
[IPress,Tool:PolyMesh3D]
[CanvasStroke,(ZObjStrokeV02n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
[IPress,Transform: Edit]
[IPress,Stroke:Dots]
[IPress,Stroke:FreeHand]
[IUnPress,Stroke:LazyMouse]
[IPress,Alpha:Alpha Off]
[IPress,Alpha:Alpha 01]
[IKeyPress,SHIFT,[IPress,Stroke:Dots]]
[IKeyPress,SHIFT,[IPress,Stroke:FreeHand]]
[IKeyPress,SHIFT,[IPress,Alpha:Alpha Off]]
[IKeyPress,SHIFT,[IPress,Alpha:Alpha 01]]
[ISet,Draw:Focal Shift,0]
[IPress,Document:New Document]
]

I read that changing the brush settings and then saving over the default brush would get around me having to define them in a startup macro but every time I try and save over a default brush, ZBrush crashes on startup.

Anybody have any ideas what is going wrong or how to remedy this?

#2

Hi,

Apologies for the delay in replying. For the macro repeating itself, did you try the solution here :
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?79709-Setting-up-a-macro-to-run-on-startup&p=989914&viewfull=1#post989914

As an alternative to saving over default brushes you can simply save them as new custom brushes to the ZStartup/BrushPresets folder. They will then be there every time ZBrush starts, and you could then simply get your macro to select the one you want.

HTH,

#3

Thanks Marcus - changing those lines in my DefaultZScript worked perfectly. My macro now runs only once on startup and sets all my brushes exactly as I want them.

#4

Great! :slight_smile: