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3.1 Great Job, Pixologic!

ZBrush Usage Questions
#21

Download from pixologic’s main page.
Zapplink seems not to be included. ZMapper is.

#22

what?? where???

#23

just go to pixologic.com – there’s a notice on the page…

#24

ough! thank you, thank you!

#25

Sculpting seems smoother.

#26

Hold down Ctrl and click on an item. You will then be able to assign a hotkey. Be sure to save hotkeys in Preferences:Hotkeys. You can save a startup set or a custom set.

#27

Great release, much comfortable and pleasent UI, sculpting seems more fluid than before, displacement and normal mapping is awesome.

ZApplink is missing, but hopefully it’ll be released soon

Great work Pixologic, and all involved folks!

#28

so far i’m very happy with this update and its even smoother and more responsive, although here are some quick things i’ve made a note of:

draw buffer still too small for masking and hiding
projectall needs some type of slider or setting
no helpinfo.txt file

poseable symmetry only works on the level you set it on and lower, higher it needs to recalculate and if your mesh is too high you will get a out of ram notice.

z3.0 custom brushes/macros get an error
z3.0 custom ui is a mess now in 3.1

how can i get rid of the images in the buttons and just have text?

#29

Yeah, discovered that shortly after posting whilst messing around with the fancy new UI :wink:

Although I notice that you still can’t bind mouse-related actions :cry: :cry:

#30

Really Nice. Pity about Zapplink not included I really need that. Also can you use posable symmetry on any level? I can only use it on my lowest? The new UI looks great! Everything is better grouped together. The quick hotkey is also fantastic. Thanks pixologic!

#31

Can anyone else confirm this, import a model made in z2 and look at its wireframe on differnt subd levels, i’m seeing creases all over the place where i never made any.
Okay to fix that just shift click uncrease. whew.

edit:scratch that edge looping thing, oops it only messes up IF you unify. at least it works now, cool.

#32

The only thing which doesn’t seem right with ZBrush 3.1 is the spelling mistake on the ad on the right hand side of this page: $589 starting Sepember 1st (“t” is missing, should be September).

This being said, well done to everyone at Pixologic, it’s an amazing piece of software and a pleasure to watch artists using it to express their talent (yes, I’m in a fanboy mood today :slight_smile: ).

#33

This is by far the best “dot” upgrade of any software package I can recall. I’m so blown away by the range of new sculpting brushes, the super smooth ZMapper, the ultra-sexy UI tweaks and the feeling of faster and totally stable sculpting. Wow.

Serious congratulations and kudos are in order for the team who got this done! More than ever, ZBrush stands now as a truly unrivaled tool for creativity.

Maybe a little too gushy, but after playing with the upgrade for 30 minutes or so, I’m even more excited than when I first installed ZB3 in the first place. Much thanks to everyone at Pixologic!

#34

Is there any documentation about the new features?

#35

Thanks for the update team, no more display errors for me so i can now get back to doodleing, i couldn’t be happier.Steve

#36

Thanks a lot for the update, the user interface is much smoother now! The grey interface fits a lot better, than the gradient in 3.0. The preview windows appearing when moving the mouse over itemns is great!!!

best regards,
xBucket

#37

thanks pixologic :+1: :+1: :+1:

#38

Thank you for this super slick update :+1: I am loving the new interface look and functionality. Great job guys :+1:

For those playing with the Hotkey assignment try assigning a hotkey to a palette title or Current Stroke/Alpha/Texture/etc icon. Pop up windows/palettes at the press of a button :slight_smile: Now imagine that with user created menus full of useful macros. Or even zplugins, hmmm… :smiley:

I noticed a couple of items do not have a description yet and some preferences are not saved with the config. But overall I am blown away.

Now if only I was not stuck in overtime hell.

#39

I was excited first, but now I`m pissed more with every minute :stuck_out_tongue:

Im tryin to launch ZMapper (without any documentation) and theres an info about PolyGroups detected. Theres none, but even when I try to do what is written, its just NOT workin. I mean there`s always that “multi-polygrp” alert.

Can anyone help with that? I was waitin for this release just to be able to bake displacement and normals and I can`t. ARGH!

BTW - Smooth seems to work like Flatten now :confused:

#40

On Hotkeys, the F1 - F6 will bring up the palette popups at the cursor.