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#1

I am learning how to make my own alphas and I must be doing something wrong sometimes. I’m running the latest version of zbrush 4r4 and there are times when I can draw objects and 2.5d alphas onto the screen and also make it tileable and the GrabDoc for the alpha works. Then there are most all the other times that it won’t work. It just grabs some of the objects with no depth info. Why won’t it grab the depth info? I’ve had it work, but now every time I try to grab the alpha it doesn’t seem to get that depth info. Any ideas to what I’m doing wrong?

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#2

Put a plane behind it

#3

Ok so I think I have figured it out. It’s when I combine the tool objects with the simple brush 2.5D tools. I think the depth is too great to see them both. I don’t know an easy way to deal with it, but if I start out with 2.5D tools then when I use the my other objects I have to select move and it places it at the same depth as the rest of the canvas so everything has a closer depth.

So does anyone know how to get work with both canvas’ so I don’t have to fix the depth issue with every tool I insert? I don’t know if I explained this well, but any help would be appreciated.

#4

I’ll try that and see. Thanks for the tip. I’ll let you know if that works for me.

#5

Ok, Thanks for the tip. It worked.

I actually went to “layer” “fill layer” and then just went at it and it worked like a charm. Thanks again for the simple advise. my head was starting to hurt. :slight_smile: