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Zbrush 4R8 - FbxExportImport Plugin

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi Zbrush-ers,

Loving the new version but after a faultless run I’m having problems exporting my model.
The exporter feels a lot slower, like ten times as slow and some models it won’t export at
all. I’ve copied the exporter plugin from my zbrush4r7 folder and copied that into 4r8 and
now my speed is back to normal.

Only problem with that solution is that only “export selected” works, but it doesn’t work
for “export visible” and “export all”. Anyone else run into this or have a better workaround
than mine?

Thanks,

Iwan

#2

You shouldn’t copy plugins from earlier versions. Each ZBrush version things change and that’s why you’re seeing problems with the earlier version.

For the slower export in 4R8: this is probably because you have SNormals on. There’s a new slider in in the FBX Options for Smoothed Normals Amount. For fastest export set this to 100. Other settings will take longer because the geometry is assessed for what should be smoothed and what not. The default setting of 70 should be good in most cases. But only use it if you need it.

#3

I am having the same problem. I turned off s normals and it does speed things up but I get the following error “An error occurred with GetMesh:-1760”. I need the visible and all options as well so the 4R7 workaround will not work for me. Any help would be great cheers.