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Adaptive Skin isn't shown

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#1

Hi there!

I have a problem with the good old ZSpheres. I made a simple chain of ZSpheres (nothing fancy) and press “A” to get my Adaptive Skin - but the screen remains blank! Whatever I do there is no Adaptive Skin. If I create a Skin out of the preview (which I can’t see at this moment), ZBrush generates a Brush with the name Skin_ZSphere and the expected skin is shown as the brush image. But when I draw the tool then again there is nothing I could see.
I hope I made my problem clear and I hope you can help me with it even more so!

Thanks in advance!

#2

You can try the steps in this post>> http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?177277-Tool-went-gray-can-not-sculpt-any-more-Answered&p=1015997&viewfull=1#post1015997

#3

Thanks for the tipp Doug Jones, but sadly this doesn’t do anything :\ When I draw my ZSphere-Tool on the canvas the RGB and zIntensity sliders are at 100 and they are still at this value when I change the mode. Modifying these values doesn’t change anything either.
I uploaded he zSphere tool, so you can probably have a look at it? Maybe I did something terribly wrong? And if it works in your zBrush then I know at least that it’s not the tool causing the problem.

Thanks in advance, I appreciate any comment!

#4

Yes, but ZAdd is turned off. Turn it on and all will be well.

#5

That’s it! Thank you very much! Now it works as expected. But honestly this is a mean pitfall :confused: I’d have never been able to fix it on my own.

#6

Great. :slight_smile: It’s not a common problem (I only saw what it was by examining your file) but I’ll add something to the online docs when I can.