Hi All,
I know this may be a silly question, but is there a way to set all of your alphas to load when Zbrush loads or would that make it take longer to open? It’s just such a pain to have to load the alpha that I want to use every time.
\Zbrush\ZData\Alphas
U can put them in there but as it get more zbrush takes longer to startup
and the alpha pallette in zbrush takes longer to show up.
Wouldnt recommend it for many alphas.
Thanks Stu. That helps!
Stop! 
DON´T change the ZData folder! Never!
Sorry, I can´t explain why – but I´m absolutely sure that´s a bad thing.
Put them in the ZStartup/Alphas folder instead .
(Not more than 25.)
Or download the Alpha+Texture loaders plugin:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=30425
will i die?
I hadn’t done anything yet, so thank you for the info Moni. I have been putting them in the startup alpha folder and the only alpha that will come up when I start up is an alpha that I made from a texture, but I’ve got to ask…why only 25? Will it make Zbrush crash?
And Stu, every body dies…eventually 
thanks for the answer i wasnt shure ^^
Anyways im having the alphas in the zdata alpha folder and ive never had problems.
I have all the gnomon skin alphas in there so thats about 50 plus the
standard ones.
It doesnt crash. However my old laptop used to take very long to load them
all so i guess its all a ram thing
I really suggest that you guys get the alpha loader plugin. I like it alot.
@Lartist_Formerly_Known_As_+
Please see here:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=67511
@ Disco Stu – I had a great many materials in the ZData folder and some REALLY strange things happened. And I´m not talking just about a Zbrush crash.
I don´t know if these things happened because I modified the ZData folder but what is sure is that since I moved the materials into the Zstartup/Materials folder no strange things happened anymore.
BUT IMO (–I had about 200materias in the Zstartup/Materials folder–) it was effecting the performance of Zbrush.
A few months ago I read that we should not add more than 20-25 materials, 20-25 alphas (etc…) in the Zstartup folder so I created a new folder on my desktop for all my downloaded and unzipped materials+alphas which I don´t need at the moment.
Now I have only my favourite materials and alphas in the Zstartup folder and everything works fine. For the alphas+textures I downloaded the alpha+texure loaders plugin a few weeks ago btw.
However – you might be right that this is just a RAM thing but whatever it is I won´t modify the ZData folder anymore – and that is for sure.
Thanks for the link Moni. You know, I had that same problem before that was described in the link, but my issue was that one of the loden materials that I had downloaded had an error in it and it would not allow Zbrush to open at all. Thanks for the info!