Dear Pixologic,
First time I post here. Thank you for creating ZBrush, it’s really an amazing tool.
I was a bit bored and I hope you don’t mind me posting some ideas I have on how the interface can be improved, because many people have been complaining about it. Personally I like the interface after getting used to it and customizing it.
Nevertheless I think ZBrush can be modernized and optimized a bit so you don’t have to travel through the many panels ZBrush has. Also I think scene and asset management should be improved.
My feedback:
- Introduce tabs/shelves to group palettes. In the mock-up below you see tabs/shelves for custom libraries. Lightbox is too dependent on folder structure.
- Allow a roll-out form to be placed as a button which opens a popover form when clicked (See the dynamesh button example).
- Make it easier to manage subtools. Currently you have to scroll up and down all the time to select them and modify them. I think I can fix this myself with a custom palette.
- Add a tool/brush based quick settings bar which you can customize.
- Maybe a bit more drag and drop behavior? Like dragging and dropping a texture on your subtool.
- Easier field value adjustment. Allow users to easily quickly/slowly increment and decrement a field’ value using modifier keys(ctrl, alt and shift) and easier to manipulate sliders.
I didn’t design all of the icons, some were taken from Flaticons. The image in the viewport is also taken from your website. Also my mock-up is probably missing 50% of the features.
The very rough mock-up(open the original image if the image is displayed too small):
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