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Answered: Where's the Refract option

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I am following a tutorial found in the “Introducing ZBrush” book. Unfortunately it is geared for ZBrush 3 and some settings/options have moved in ZBrush 4. I have kept (the Mac version of) ZBrush 3.12b installed so I can still do the tutorials. But my question is: Where is the Refract option in ZBrush 4 (this gives a nice effect when making a glass ball)? It is under the Draw menu in ZBrush 3. I couldn’t find mention of it in the pdf files that came with ZBrush 4.

BTW: It sure would be nice to have a document that says where the options have moved to in ZBrush 4.

Also, is there an in-app help file? I thought I saw (on this forum or somewhere else-I can’t remember) mention of a help file in the older version. Is there one for the new version?

#2

Is this it? http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/Best_Preview_Render#BPR_Transparency

#3

Thank you for showing me where Refract is now (under the Render menu). But at a quick look I can’t seem to figure out how to use it in ZBrush 4. In ZBrush 3, I was able to set it, create a transparent ball, and when I dragged the ball around the underlying drawing would distort. That doesn’t happen within ZBrush 4. – Well, hopefully Pixologic will come out with a ZBrush 4 PDF manual (like they have done in the past) that will explain how to use it in detail.

#4

Have you read the New Features PDF found in the ZBrush 4\Documentation folder?

#5

I see that this thread is already marked as answered as I was composing another question. So I started a new thread (Called Refract question 2) with this question in it. There seems to be no way to delete this single post/question.

Yes, I checked out the ZBrush documentation. Page 118 talks about the Transparency settings, but doesn’t say exactly how to use them. Here is what I did in ZBrush 3: 1) Selected the Jellybean material, 2) Select the Sphere 3D tool, 3) Set the RGB intensity to 5, 4) Transform palette -turned “Quick” off, 5) Drew a ball. 6) Dragged the ball around and the underlying drawing distorted. —How am I supposed to do it in ZBrush 4?