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#341

In my wish list for Zb4 are 2 things;

  1. GoZ for 3ds max and
  2. and most important, Could you very pretty please make the Auto save or Auto back function to work in ZB. (the one u have is very buggy and with some OS it doesn’t work (win7 x64 bit) or after current updates of XP x32 bit it became useless and causes more problems).
    We work with Zbrush professionally and it’s so frustrating when after like 1.5hrs (when i really get into my work i completely forget about saving work) zbrush just suddenly decides to crash and all hard work is gone.

PLEASE We need Auto save function very badly!

Kind Regards

Vadim Grichenko

#342

Auto save would be nice, but if you work professionally you know better than to work for 1.5 hours without saving. :wink:

#343

z brush4 …i am so excited…
thanx pixologic…:lol:

#344

Have you actually read the first post in this thread?

#345

Have you actually read the first post in this thread?
yes i have read it, i know Goz coming in Zb4 (and it’s gonna be awesome). that’s my most awaiting feature from zb4.
and then equally, if not most important is Autosave\Autobackup feature that is on my wishlist for zb.
And yes i know ppl say
“…but if you work professionally you know better than to work for 1.5 hours without saving.”
But crashes always happens when u least expect it, when you are in the “Zone” and carving digital piece of clay I bet that most people concentrate on the model and quiet often forget to save.
I dont mind the Autobackup being intrusive like in 3dsmax when your work is being backed up every 10 mins (it can be customized) but i know that it’s a trusty safety net that I always can fall back on in case of crash.

I beg and urge to put priority on addressing this issue over anything else.

Kind Regards

Vadim

#346

Please… send us a few tasters, would love to see the launch, but Africa is a long swim…

Are there going to be tutorials on the classroom forum…?

Can’t wait… my early Christmas…

#347

so, is there a list of new features? or is this just goz added to every program i don’t use?

i’d like to see zb4 as a 64 bit program, GoZ on softimage would be nice but not necesary as i doubt it’s all that useful in my workflow anyway. obj export/import works fine on both programs anyway.

but so far all i’ve seen is GOz mentioned and that’s it.

maybe some tweaks to uvmaster. i cannot get that damn thing to cut anywhere near where i want it too.

#348

Just to clarify. Are you thinking that if they haven’t put Autosave in to ZBrush 4, that they’ll read your post and try and implement it in the three weeks prior to release?

That isn’t going to happen. The feature-set for this release will have been defined a long time ago, before development began for the most part. I’m sure Pixologic have been in the Testing phase for a fair while at this stage, and implementing a new feature now would be immensely risky.

In short, if a feature isn’t already developed, it won’t be going into this release. The time to ask for features was over a year ago I suspect.

#349

I don’t need an auto save as such. I would just like the ability, that I have with every other programme use, to quickly save. I just want to press ‘s’ or ctrl ‘s’ or something.

#350

That’s nice. Due to my dental bills and my broken computer, it’s too bad I can’t use it. :frowning:

#351

You can do it with Svengali Quick save script.

#352

No list yet. You’ll start hearing about new features during or after SIGGRAPH. (I suspect people at the show will start sharing some of what they saw.)

Here are a couple things that have been previewed:

:small_orange_diamond: [COLOR=White]Making Time for Art
:small_orange_diamond: Introducing SpotLight and LightBox - SpotLight is new. LightBox is in 3.5, which means it will be new for Mac users. Also, it’s been said that it will get some enhancements in 4.[/COLOR]

#353

:d

#354

Hope retopo get a big improvement. An ability to use smooth and move tool while the polygons are still constrained to the mesh. And the ability to add edge loops and move edge loops would be nice.

#355

I really don’t see a use for the animation features that those videos suggest. Only if its importing animation from maya etc would that be useful. Animating with the transpose tool would be so painful on many levels.

if animated caches could be brought in ala mari that would be welcome and being able to save out poses/morphs whatever. But being able to keyframe and make small movies for youtube isn’t that attractive.

By the way, I’m not a hater, i love zbrush anyway…

wishlist
a)maya style navigation
b)paining of bump, specular and colour.
c)colour layers, with masks!

I dont think there is any excuse for not having these features. they aren’t hard to program in and everybody wants them!

#356

:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:

and i´d like to add a permanent “smooth UV”-feature to the wishlist

#357

sure b and c maybe, but a? why bug the users who DON’T use maya because the maya people are asking for it. personally the current system works better than most movement systems for modelling.

best case scenario for you would be implementing an OPTION for a maya like control method. but programmers tend to not like maintining two of something

i use a cintiq so keyboard based nav styles do not work for me, the alt key on the side of my screen is perfect for both controling and editing in zbrush. so yeah i can’t agree with maya based nav. better texturing tools are always welcome though.

#358

One feature I think would be great to see is the ability to paint directly onto a texture applied to your model. So I don’t have to make an insainly high poly model (or use HD geometry) and bake the polypaint to a 4 or 8k texture (Or use appLink to use photoshop to paint.

That’d be my biggest hope aside from what’s already been announced (GoZ for 3dsmax ftw!).

And 64bit would rock too.

Can’t wait to see what gets announced.

#359

EvilSmiley:is there any software that support directly paint on textures applied?it would be great,i always think of it…
my wish list would be
1)to save the viewport view so that its locked.i always get wrong since my preview will change and all the screen shot will get useless.

2)also sorry if its some greedy thought.it would be great to have a plugin to save the screen of model with all matcaps we selected.

3)also it will be great to have more transparency options.

4)it would be great to have some water shaders or mirror shaders with reflections.

SORRY IF I AM GREEDY…I LOVE ZBRUSH AND ZBRUSHERS…
HAPPY ZBRUSHING… makers of ZBRUSH is GREAT people

#360

When can we expect the plugin GoZBrush for Softimage 2010 and 2011 ?