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Couple of questions for folks here about ZB

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hiya,

Updated to the newest version just this AM… looking forward to playing with the hair stuff but in the mean time… OK. I’m one of those folks from the Poser DAZ Studio areas… I’m currently working on some morphs for Genesis and was wondering…

Is there a way to turn on backfaces so when I’m zoomed way in doing fine work on specific areas and rotate a bit the whole mesh doesn’t just vanish until I zoom back out?? That would be very very helpful…

Also there was an issue about importing or loading up brushes… there was a Push/Pull brush I liked using in the 3.X version of ZB and really wanted to use that again… it simply won’t load. At least the Brush Palette doesn’t show it loaded up. I’d also love to know if there is a brush that expands and contracts out there anywhere? The smoothing brush will contract but it also causes loss of detail so I don’t want that.

Thanks for the help folks! Really loving ZB + Genesis… It’s a match made in heaven… thank GOD for GoZ bridge! WOW! AWESOME! :smiley:

Richard

#2

Yes you can turn on viewing of back faces. I would tell you where the setting is but I am waiting for an activation code so no zbrush for me now:(

Also there was an issue about importing or loading up brushes… there was a Push/Pull brush I liked using in the 3.X version of ZB and really wanted to use that again… it simply won’t load. At least the Brush Palette doesn’t show it loaded up. I’d also love to know if there is a brush that expands and contracts out there anywhere? The smoothing brush will contract but it also causes loss of detail so I don’t want that.

I don’t know about the brush question.

If by expand and contract you mean move points in the direction of their normals then yes the inflate brush does that. If you mean you want to expand or contract a portion of your model uniformly you would use the scale tool for that. Just mask off the parts you don’t want to affect.

#3

To enable visibility of both sides of polygons, enable Tool > Display Properties > Double button.

All the old brushes are in Lightbox > Brush section.

#4

Thank you both for your help, I really appreciate it! :slight_smile: