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Damian Standard Vs Pinch Tool

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hello everyone.

I have recently attempted to “sculpt” a Z-brush model using the dam standard brush tool. The problem is, the dam standard brush is not reaping the same results as was seen on Simon Blanc’s “No more Wine” tutorial.

Whenever I use the dam standard brush tool along with the drag rectangle stroke (as seen on blancs tut) all I get is a big pinch of vertices together in one area (and NOT the straight lines that Simon was able to achieve.)

Does anyone know why when I use the dam standard brush tool with drag rectangle stroke, I even recieving “pinched” areas, and not straight lines?

I have also tried the Dam Standard tool with the draw stroke, but the lines I create seem to be “jittered,” and not as smoothe as ones created with the “pinch” tool.

Can someone tell me what I have to do with the Dam Standard brush tool to be able to draw the fine details Blanc was able to in his tutorial?

#2

I’ve had the same problem. I have Zbrush 3.5 R3 but I think the brush was actually made for an earlier version of Z. Which is causing the problem.
I ended up making a copy of the Dam_standard (a new brush) using the same settings and alpha - and that did the trick. No more pinching of vertices…
Hope that helps you…

#3

I’ve found the slash 3 brush to be quite good for doing very fine lines, just need to turn down the intensity a bit, might be worth giving that a go if dam standard is behaving strangely

#4

Yeah - I’ve tried the slash brush, but I don’t really think I get the same result…

#5

Does any one know how to migrate the great dam standard brush to ZBrush 4?
Using the one frome older versions works oddly in ZB4. :qu: :qu:

#6

Billyfoto, I fixed the Dam Standard of Z4 to work like previous version by going into Brush menu/Modifiers and turning Smooth to zero. This fixed the brush.

Also adjusting the focal shift of the alpha helped a bit to restore it’s glory.

The other thing to tweak, is the Brush Mod setting, adjusting that to the right will increase the pinch effect, to the left will decrease.

#7

The brush is available in Z4, look in lightbox brushes tab.