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#21

Hi Southern,

I just wanted to thank you for this amazing work. I saw it earlier today but wasn’t able to download it until now. I followed your instructions pretty well (I think?) but I’m getting a super freezeup when I hit the AlphaManager button. Perhaps because I’m on a Mac. Any other Mac users out there having this problem? I know I will get much use out of this when I get it to work so thanks again in advance.
Also I love the second render of your surfing robot , Is that the toony material? Awesome stuff :cool:

#22

found no time to install your fantastico script yet, southern, so sorry, Zoid, no experience if that might be trouble for us macusers (which would be arghissimo! as i for sure need a manager to organize things for me and those alphas look :+1: :+1: :+1: to no end). most excellent idea, Glen, and the pix that come with it in this thread are out of this world once more!

  • juandel
#23

Sorry guys, I dont own a MAC YET!!!!! so I cant test it on one.

G

I would be greatful if a MAC user could check it out and ammend the code if needed.

G

#24

I learned the hard way with my ScriptSelector that ZScripts on the Mac can’t browse to scripts folders other than the ZBrush root folder. I think that to fix the Mac problem, you’re going to have to put everything in the root folder, and write the scripts to call it from there.

#25

Thanks Southern. This is really handy… will be more so when I figure out what to do with alpha’s ~G~ Thanks to Kathy’s help I was able to add it to Aurick’s script selector. Makes a super package.

Thanks to all of you for these nifty add on’s and the help offered us Newbies.

#26

:slight_smile: This is just :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :+1: :+1: :+1: awsome!!! THANK YOU SOUTHERN…

#27

you is the daddy.

Hey Southern, ive put a link to your web site on mine okay. Thank you for sharing your talents.

Arran :+1:

#28

Another excellent addition to Zbrush! Thanks a million Glen! Brilliant idea!

#29

Just in case you missed the updated file…

12.01.02 EDIT04:
This updated .TXT file now includes four tutorials to help learn about ALPHA BRUSHES. Download the file and overwrite the ZBrushloader.txt file in the Alphamanager directory.
ZBrushloader.txt

#30

Here’s a challange…
How about getting the Texture Master, Alpha Manager and Material Pack -ALL- on the bottom of the screen at the same time???
Upham :slight_smile:

I’ll proberly do this myself when I become a ZScript master from Davies upcomming lessons!

#31

HI Upham,

If you use my Default ZScript it CALLS al the others as needed and then Ive added buttons to the others to send you back to the default. Ill show you, hang on…

#32

Cool. I’m using your default script and used Z1 to load Material Pack in the MaterialPack draw but hit a brick wall!
Hangin’ on…

Southern, tonight I was thinking about your old picture of the green smokin troll (a really old one) and ended up thinking about the wisps of smoke comming out of the cigerette. I applied my old feather/hair technique to a modified spiral with transparency and came up with this …

It’s just an experiment and needs to be worked on …

Here’s another idea for a new script … TOOL MASTER!! I find I’m constantly scrolling back and forth between the size and rotate sliders and wish they could be nice big handy buttons on the bottom of the screen. Since when modeling you use a small document size you could have all sorts of buttons taking up the bottom of the screen.

I’d really like a 90-dregree rotation button in the tool’s rotation slider. I’m constantly typing “90” in the rot-xyz slider and wish I could just hit a 90+ or 90- button!

Anyway food for thought.
Upham :slight_smile:

#33

That smoke tool si cool!!!

I`ll have a go at Tool master but I may need advice to put sliders on my Default ZScript.

I hit a problem too. Photoshop is throwing memory errors at startup and re-install wont help!!!!! Im sunk…

#34

Hi Glen. Don’t sweat the zscript. I’m off to bed on my side of the world. You, on the otherhand will need to spend sometime backing up yourt machine. No need to buy PS6 as I’m sure you’ll have the same problems.
Check out … THIS thread for some tech-tips on this problem. It could be anything from your date to your antivirus or a Microsoft program.
You MAY have to reinstall 2000, which is much easier the second time around! It would be EXTREMLY easy if you had previously made a Disk Image of your C drive made from programs like Nortons Ghost. There are Freeware programs out there like
XXCOPY that create images though I haven’t used it myself.
Sorry man. Can’t keep my eyes open much longer.
Upham :slight_smile:

#35

Upham. Did a Win 2000 re-install. Get some sleep buddy, I`ll catch you later.

Glen.

#36

This is how my Z front-end works. As new ZScripts are added I use the user defined buttons.

I canabalize the new ZScript by adding a line of code like this to the very very very bottom of the New ZScript…


[ibutton,“Default”," return to Default ZScript",[fileNameSetNext,“ZScripts/DefaultZScript.txt”][iPress,7427]]

Which gives a button that goes back to the default ZScript.

#37

ps…I did the ZSCIPT spelling mistake in the JPG to stop rival companies taking our work :slight_smile: DOH!!! BAD SPOOLER SUVEN

#38

too :cool: southern!!!

hmmm, are there any other mac-users out there who managed to get that collectiondeluxe as the default one without getting an error2 complete with z-shutdown upon loading the alphamanager from it (which runs primo as a standalone)? if yes: advice as how to manage things would be much appreciated (i am sure there is a way but too dumb to find it) :mad:

  • juandel
#39

hey southern your default script looks pretty good however how did you get the material master to load up and work the way it should… ive built my own panel and i have a button to load it, and it loads just fine but sometimes the script wont work,meaning it wont load the material requested… can anybody help with this… ps. if i selected the script material master by itself i have not problems with …its only when i load it from my default panel…

#40

you need to make sure the paths are correct for your machine.

THese lines add buttons to call ZScripts…

[IButton," Alpha Manager ",“Get AlphaManager”,[fileNameSetNext,“ZScripts/SGFXZScripts/ZBrushes/ZBrushloader.txt”][iPress,7427]]

to get AlphaMaster

[IButton,“MaterialPack”,“MaterialPack”,[fileNameSetNext,“ZScripts/MaterialPack/MaterialPack.txt”][iPress,7427]]

To get MaterialPack

[IButton," Txt-Manager",“Get TextureManager”,[fileNameSetNext,“ZScripts/SGFXZScripts/TextureManager/TextureManager.txt”][iPress,7427]]

to get my new TextureManager…

Any of these lines of code added to your DefaultZScript will work but ONLY!!! if the paths are correct for your System…

Not so sure about the mac though…

G