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Clay and Claybuildup Brushes Not Working (beginner)

Been searching for an answer to this problem for 2 1/2 hours now, can’t find a solution. It’s probably something simple I’m just overlooking or simply unaware of. Here it is: I open ZBrush. I open the gray polysphere tool. I set the dynamesh resolution to 32. I click dynamesh. I use the move tool, and it works great. I hold control and make an empty selection outside of the tool to let dynamesh do its thing. Works great. Now, when I try to use the clay brush or claybuildup brush, etc., they don’t work. I can have it on ZAdd, 100 Intensity, no matter what size, and have the focal shift at any size…and hardly anything happens. It’s like all of a sudden the clay brushes are incredibly weak or are not working at all. I tried increasing the resolution of the dynamesh, but the problem persists. I tried pressing control + D and increasing polycount…but still the problem persists. Now, if I even clear the palette by clicking preferences and ‘init zbrush’ and just open another basic polysphere, or anything else, the clay brushes don’t work at all, no matter what the intensity/size/focal shift. But other brushes like the move brush and standard brush still work. Please help.

I’ve been using zbrush for almost 2 weeks, and usually when I run into roadblocks like this (which are often), I can find the solution through troubleshooting/online searches/tutorials/forums/etc. Posting on here is my last resort before I lose my sanity. If anybody can answer this, I will gladly buy you a beer :slight_smile:

Can you show a screenshot of your interface when you’re trying to use a Clay brush? I’ve no immediate suggestion to make but that might help narrow down the problem.

Thanks,

thanks for offering to help. i just opened up zbrush to take a screen shot for you, but now it’s working fine. maybe it was a glitch or something? i closed and reopened zbrush last night numerous times while troubleshooting and it wasn’t working then, so i have no idea what happened between then and now. i’m using a macbook pro retina and an intuos 5 tablet, if that means anything (the problem was the same with the tablet and the macbook trackpad). if it happens again, i will post an image to show the problem. thanks again for offering to help!

That’s odd but I’m glad it’s working again!