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ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I notice in Meats Meyers tutorial video he has all the brushes available as a list with sliders on the left shelf. All I seem to have is the single ball which I click on for the rest of the brushes. Is there any way to get the slider version in 3.1.
Thanks

#2

Nope,

That video is old, from 3.0

#3

Dang, old video I bought a month ago !!!

thanks for the info though :slight_smile:

#4

You can certainly make your own. Go to “custom UI” in the preferences, and “Enable Customize”. This will let you drag most elements on the interface around by Ctrl-dragging them.

Next, hit “create new menu” underneath that button, call it “Quick brushes” or some such. That new menu will appear in the menu bar at the top. Yoy can then open and drag that menu via the little tearoff icon in the corner where you want it, and Ctrl-drag brush icons into it from the brush menu ( note: you have to drag them from the full pull down menu of the “brush” menu at the top of the UI, not the one on the side toolbar).

Make sure to save your UI configuration afterwards (Config>save UI, and then “store config” if you want to make it the default on startup). It’s really quite fun when you realize how customizeable ZB 3.x is…you can lose hours just making everything perfect…and that’s not even talking about color customization :wink:

#5

Wow, thanks Bingo. I hope I dont spend hours just playing now :lol:

#6

Just as a matter of interest, my document always opens at 960 X 720 (lord knows why Pixologic chose that as the default?) Ive tried changing it and used the save config, but it sure is a persistant little blighter. Anyone know how to change that to a more friendly 1K square?

#7

Create the document that you want and save it as StartupDocument.zbr in the ZStartup folder. It’ll be loaded automatically every time you launch ZBrush.

Here are some cool things you can do with a startup document:


  • Have a specific size that you always work with.
  • Set up your preferred default lighting.
  • Have layers pre-made and ready for use.
  • You can even paint materials onto a layer (which you can turn off). Why is this nice? Because materials that are used on the canvas are saved with the document. That includes any custom material settings.

#8

Thanks for that Aurick, cool ideas, what you suggest certainly helps getting my startup sorted. :idea: Thanks guys, much appreciate the help here on Zbrush central.