Just a question -
Is there a hard limit on number of presets in the zstartup folder?
Thanks for any info you may have,
cw
You shouldn’t put in more than 25 of any given item. ZStartup is meant to be used for items that you need constantly; it was never intended to be used for anything you think you might need at some point. Since these items are loaded at launch, that would be a huge drain on system resources – to say nothing of making your pop-up windows so big that everything can’t fit on the screen.
LightBox is meant for the things that you’ll use less often. It’s almost as convenient as having the items pre-loaded at launch, and has the advantage of being able to be organized using sub-folders and shortcuts.
thanks aurick!
I shall have to prune my brush presets a bit, there is more than 25 in there. I’ll just move the more specialist ones into the lightbox folder. Thanks for the clarification.
I am guessing this means not to bother making custom UI shortcuts to anything not in the zstartup folder - I’ll have to load them manually when required.
Just noticed this in the documentation:
Because ZBrush 3.5 adds a huge amount of new brushes, many of them have been
moved into the Brush category of LightBox. The most important ones are still available in
the Brush palette. At any time, you can reorganize which brushes are in the Brush palette
in LightBox by manually moving the brushes from one location to another through the
ZBrush folders located on your hard drive as follows:
• Directory: ZBrush3.5/ZStartUp/BrushPresets will control brushes at startup being
added to the pop-up menu from the main brush icon.
• Directory: ZBrush3.5/ZBrushes will control which brushes will be in LightBox.
• Directory: ZBrush3.5/ZData/BrushPresets are the default startup brushes that will
launch at startup.
Move these brushes between directories as you wish to have complete control. How-
ever, we recommend not deleting any of these brushes because the only way to get them
back is to do a completely new install. If you don’t want to have a brush available at all,
it is better to move it to a holding folder that you create for that purpose, so that they can
easily be restored should you change your mind.
No mention of the 25 item limit and a suggestion that files can be fiddled with in zdata - I thought it was no go area and asking for trouble to tinker inside there? I just wanted to point it out in case there will be a revision of the docs sometime, it could be clarified and save people faffing around trying to work out what the heck happened if something goes awry.
cheers! 