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Exact positioning a subtool over an inactive subtool

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#1

Hello,

I have to position a subtool exactly over an other subtool, so that 1 point (a rotation-center) is exactly posed over a certain point of the underlying subtool.

So I tried to show the mesh Polyframe of the inactive subtool in ghost-mode to find the exact point where I have to position the corresponding point of my active subtool.

I didn’t find a possibility to show the polyframe of the inactive subtool. So how can I exatly position the active subtool in front of the inactive one?

mawag01

#2

Leave ‘Transp’ on and ‘Ghost’ off.

edit: maybe I mis-understood what you meant. sorry

#3

Are you using the Axis plug? It can help. Paint it a material like sketch shade3, might help.
Material info.. More on wireframe color here.

#4

Sorry, I ment transparency on and ghost off. And of course, I have th axis-plugin.
But I can’t show the wireframe of the underlying subtool. Only the mesh. If it is very smooth, and has a dense polygon-net, it’s quite difficult to exactly position the overlying active subtool without seeing the wireframe. It would help, to show the wireframe on the underlying subtool.

#5

Using Move with the transform settings at the bottom of the Geometry palette. Not at my PC ATM with ZBrush.

#6

Sorry, but I not really understand what you mean. At the bottom of the geometry-pallet I find “position”, “size” and mesh-integrity", but no transform-settings ???
I’m not a newby with zbrush, but I still have many questions. Sorry for not understanding.

Sketch-Shader 3 helps a little bit, but when the subtool is inactive, it’s still difficult to see the rigt point under the active subtool. So I thought, there is another option. Perhaps the marker-palette? Does anybody know, wether I can use this function fpr this purpose?

mawag01

#7

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?175111-Answered-Is-this-a-bug&highlight=Gyro

#8

Sorry, I meant the Framer2,3,4 shader. In the deformation palette you can move one subtool easily, helps to eliminate some axis of movement though in the Transform>Modifiers bit. You might try enabling Dots Display in the Transform palette, just a thought, might help you.

#9

Thanks Doug Jones. MatCap Framer 3 works. It shows the wire-frame quite well to find exact points.

I thought, somwbody else must have had this problem before me, but searching the forum didn’t bring the result. I can’t undrstand, that this problem never before occured here.

Thanks again

mawag01

#10

Awesome, glad it helped. :smiley: