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Unable to Modify or Paint 3d Tool

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#1

Hi,

I’m a noobie at zbrush. Thought I had some things figured out. I was happily sculpting and painting. Had several layers (I think) and saved as a tool, a document AND a project and closed down for the night. When I went back into the document I was unable to paint or modify the tool. I’ve tried creating a new document and redrawing the tool. Tried Ctrl + N too. Nothing works. All I can do is rotate the model and change the material. What have I done? I’ll be losing a good chunk of work if I can’t figure this out.

Thanks in advance to all who answer!!

#2

Try clearing the mask in the Tool >> Masking subpalette. It’s possible that you accidentally masked it and every once in a while the mask isn’t visible.

Also check to make sure that the currently selected layer has editing turned on!

#3

Thanks for your response. Cleared the mask & checked the layers but that doesn’t seem to be it. The brush seems to be locked in rotate mode. Does that make any sense?

#4

Im having this exact same problem. Cleared all masks and none of the brushes work, when i try and draw the mesh just rotates.

Additionally using the Move and Scale tools from the top UI just rotate the whole mesh.

You cannot see it in the screen shot but the rotation symbol is always present at the cursor when the edit button is active.:confused:

Stopping short of doing a new install i am at a loss as to what to do :frowning:

ArgRotate evil.jpg

Thanks in advance

#5

Ok so ive tied to edit the file again it seems that other tools are editable until i load this one.

The only thing that seems to work on the tool is tanspose, i can use projection master to paint colours but not deformations. :confused: i have tried to duplicate the tool but even restarting Zbrush and loading the new tool has the same problem.

#6

Here is the drop box link to the file. Im really stuck and annoyingly its probably something really simple.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/67395254/Chiase%20longhighpolydecal.ZTL

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated :frowning:

#7

I’m having the exact same problem. I was working on the mesh and in the middle of my session I can no longer sculpt on the model. When I cursor over the model the rotation arrow appears, left clicking simply rotates the model around.

How do we fix this? Help please!

Update This same phenomenon gets repeated even if I load a different model. UNLESS I load a different model first, edit it slightly and then load the model I was having trouble with. That seemed to fix it.

weird…