3.1 Great Job, Pixologic!

[edgeey]

Does anyone know what the new “framing” hot key would be? By framing I mean it used to be the delete button or the “.”

[Andy1010]

Hit the “F” Key. You can also change this of course.

[Randy_Riley]

Spaceboy:

Oh, and Ive noticed that I can now assign other brushes to Shift key. Shame it wont change Strokes, which makes it a little bit useless.

I watched the MEATS MEIER Zbrush 3 Gnomon video and he said to change the function of the shift (at least in V3.0 and if I remember correctly) you would shift click on the brush that you want to remap it to. I never tried it personally but if it’s something your into I would try it out. I think this way will alow you to have 2 stroke types?

[Crusoe_the_Painter]

Wow, love the improvements!

But alt doesn’t seem to reverse the brush action anymore? Am I missing something?

[roger_01]

Zb 3.1 is out. So sooon! Great job guys!!

[Maxsunset]

Wow, love the improvements!

But alt doesn’t seem to reverse the brush action anymore? Am I missing something?

Seems to work fine for me. Although of the few brushes I tested, alt-pinch doesnt “un-pinch” like I seem to remember it used to…

[cyfer]

hope this is not a silly thing , but ALT+T and all the Others aren’t working anymore !
i just loved those and i can’t get them back !

[The_Namek]

I found that temporarily turning off Colorize will make the dynamic preview of materials work again (of course your polypaint color is no longer visible until you turn colorize back on).

When Colorize is turned on, dynamic preview will only really work when your Object is “filled” with material 00, Flat Color.

Sven

Thanks , good find

[DocChaos]

hi fellas,

well well… really nice job, had a few … very few crashes but the reason might be wrong handling.

i notice a really strange thing, and hope it is just a misconfiguration.
compare this 2 screens pls:

zb2.1 R2
[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘65227’,‘zb3.1.jpg’,1,0))

…

why isnt it rendered in zb3 and 3.1 in realtime with tha neat bumps?
i miss teh complete structure overlay, i see only somethin like alpha… rotatin model is the same behavior like with 2.1…

or is this neat realtime bumpy rendering completely gone?

regArts
k0s

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[Zoopi]

Anybody tested it and worked out how to use it so that the placed objects stay in the correct position or is this problem still not solved.
Pretty dissappointing.
PS I know that sub tools is there but I like the multimarker because it really keeps each object 's attributes much easier and better.

[DDS]

Minor evil, to activate symmetry you have to hit the activate symmetry button before you can select an axis to turn it on for. Only took me 5 min to puzzle through that. :lol:

I dont think so…u just press x,y or z and it gets activated automatically, pressing again so all axis are off, disables symmetry (obviously)

[AniMan]

3.1 worst realise.
Its many improvements, but interface is BAD.

In 2.5 I can do ANYTHING with interface customization, in 3.0 is limited, in 3.1 more limited!
Advanced StartUp script and interface setup in 2.5 is very clear and understandable, but in 3.1…
If that realise be without changing interface is be cool.

How return brush select from 3.0, and turn off text label on everywhere (alphas)?

[system]

Hey guys!

I love the interface and the brushes feel so much faster it’s really just amazing. I agree with one of the previous posts that this is the most robust point update I’ve ever seen.

Now for a problem I’m having:
Whenever I hit the ZMapper button I get this error: “No GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 support!”

Once I hit OK I get: “GL_INVALID_ENUM:”

After OK on that one I get: “Reentry at Display” and it pretty much goes back and forth between the last 2 and I have to kill the ZBrush3.exe process to get out of it.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Sorry if the answer has been posted already.

GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 is an opengl extention that is only supported by recent graphics cards. Check to see what your card is.

I ran 3.1 in parallels and when i tried to use zmapper, i got this becuase parallels only supports directx 8.1 and opengl to an early standard…

[spaz8]

I’m very pleased with this update. A lot of little things have been addressed making the program far tighter.

[dozogovi]

ok this is messed up all of my brushes are not appearing in the brush palette for instance"move" or stitch 2 is there a stitch one i cant find? there is no rake. where the heck did all the brushes go and why?

[DocChaos]

i was wondering about the brushes too … BUT:

have a look at this:

[](javascript:zb_insimg(‘65229’,‘toolsetc.jpg’,1,0))

well normally i dislike things like: our steering wheel for this car is on the backseats, the engine is located under your seat and the backmirror is beyond your imagination… but i personally like the improvements of the new interface…

the only thing i dont get is the handly with alphas… sometimes they are just GREY like they were at 50% … not COMPLETE alpha… only 100% when i am draggin from outside of the model… when i paint alpha directly its always about 50… wonder why… it doesnt work to paint over 3 times… the alpha still is 50…
strange

regards
k0s

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[marcus_civis]

I am trying to work out the new brush system in 3.1 so if any one has answers to these questions i would love to hear from them.

1. there only seems to be one way to save the brush and i guess its
   going to save every thing related. Has the option box to check what parts
   you want to save gone now?
2. if i used the clay brush there would be a number next to it that would
   multiply the effect when the z intensity was at 100. Is there a way to do this
   now as the brushes seem to be very subtle.
3. Under stroke i cant set the spacing option any more. Its always greyed
   out. Is there a function that is over riding this?
   4.I saw that a converter was being written for v3 to v3.1 brushes. Where will this be made available.

many thanks to any one that can help.

nlloyd,
In answer to your saving brushes questions:

1. There are no options now, just save the brush.
2. The sliders are now a single slider named ‘BrushMod’ in the Brush palette.
3. Not that I know but I will look into this.
4. I am currently writing this and will release it in the
   ZScript Utilities Forum

[dozogovi]

some how my start up menus have turn up missing with teh exception of the matarials. and now i have lost my “standard” brush so weird. i love everything about zbrush except for the fact every version is way more disorganized then the last.

[Reanimathor]

2. The sliders are now a single slider named ‘BrushMod’ in the Brush palette.

Ive experimented and it works great with Smooth brush. When you take value close to 100 it will work similar to the previous version Smooth brush, the smoothing wont be so radical and destructive.

edit:
BUT… only for pulled parts.

What the hell is with that brush?! Seriously, it works like flatten and that`s very annoying.

[Rastaman]

I have now at least 3 ZBrush-Versions running in my workflow.

ZB3.0 is fortunately still available for me in 64bit as Main-App.
ZB2 for all that is missing in 3.0

And finally 3.1 in 32 bit that I wouldn’t miss if I hadn’t already installed it.

Crazy.