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How do you use sphere brush?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I have been trying to get spherebrush to work but I don’t understand how to.

If I try and use it on a tool, it says I have to exit the “edit / transformation” mode. So I click “switch”. Then I can paint on my object, but it appears that it has switched to 2d mode. There’s no way to switch back to edit mode.

I actually don’t know what mode I am in once this happens. The only thing I can do at this point is redraw my tool and press ctrl+N which deletes the previous thing (what is a tool called in the canvas once it’s no longer even a thing???)

Same with drawing the spherebrush stuff on an empty canvas. It looks cool but I cannot figure out how to get it to stay.

#2

there sphere brush is a 2.5D brush. It isn’t used for working on 3D meshes…unless you’re using projection master.

#3

If you want to add a sphere or string of spheres you should use the sphere insert brush. Pixologic has a great set of tutorials on the insert brushes. A must have for workflow.