I can’t get Zapplink to save the view of a sub tool positioned with the Gizmo. It will save views of subtools positioned with left-click. I’m attempting to follow along with a tutorial that clearly shows Zapplink saving views that are positioned with Gizmo. Is this a bug in the 2021.7 release?
Hello @EZRA52
I can’t account for what you are seeing in a tutorial, but this has never been any different as far as I know.
Different things are happening when you reposition a mesh with Gizmo vs when you are simply navigating around the viewport with it. Crucially, moving a mesh with Gizmo alters its relationship to its pivot point.
Restart ZBrush in a fresh session to eliminate confusion with your loaded tools. Select the default polymesh3d star and enter edit mode. Now open the Tool> Preview menu and keep it open. While this window is open it may not refresh until your force it to by doing some other action like clicking on another palette to open it.
Move the star around the viewport normally (not with Gizmo). Position it as you like, and then click on another menu to force the preview to refresh. You should not see any change.
Now, in Move mode, use the Gizmo to move the star to another corner of the screen, and rotate it a bit. Now click on another palette to open it, and watch the relationship of the mesh to its pivot change in that Preview menu.
So what is likely happening is that you are posing a mesh in a certain position on the screen, which ZApp will remember, but then changing the mesh’ s orientation in relation to that stored position. Any presets that have stored that position will now reflect the new orientation of the mesh in that position, making it seem as if the previous orientation was not stored.
In other words, if I navigate a mesh to a certain position on the screen, and use Gizmo to alter the orientation of the mesh 3 different times, and store a ZAppLink preset after each change, it will only show the last orientation of the mesh in all three of those presets, making it seem like the first two were not stored. This is because the stored position is the same for all three presets, you have simply changed how the mesh is oriented at that stored position.
If the above is not your experience, please contact Pixologic Support to take a closer look at your situation.
Thank you!
I think you’ve clearly explained the situation Spyndel. I must not have paid close enough attention to what the creator actually did. I’ll watch it again to see. But what you explained makes since. Thank you for your quick response and help.