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I think I found a small bug.

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi Everyone,
Hya ZBer!!!

A while ago I noticed that undo would sometimes stop working using Control Z and I figured out how to reproduce it:


  1. Draw on the canvas in 2.5D with something like the simple brush.
  2. In the Alpha Palette hit Grab Doc.
  3. Again in the Alpha Palette hit Make 3D.
  4. Draw your new object onto the Canvas.
  5. Turn on Edit Mode.
  6. Screw with the mesh in some way (Sculpting brushes, Deformation Palette etc).
  7. Try using Control Z to undo.

Doing things like Make PM3D does not help, nor does Dynamesh-ing the object, undo is now toast for this object via the keyboard. Undo from the edit menu still works however as does that history thing at the top usually.

If a screen shot is needed I can make one, but this spans all of the versions of ZBrush I have used, IE: 4.0 - 4R4 P2 so a screenshot would not exactly be all that informative I would think.

Cheers!
Mealea

#2

Hi Mealea! :slight_smile:

I did everything exactly as you have written and Ctrl+Z is working as it should. I did from 10 -30 different things to the mesh and it still Undo normally.

#3

Hya ZBer!

Thats interesting!
I tried all sorts of stuff; restarting ZBrush, restarting Windows and all the normal “this is odd” sort of tricks and no luck.
I wonder what is causing this…

Thanks ZBer! I will keep poking at it.

#4

I have no idea what might be causing it. Have you tried re-installing ZBrush? What exactly happens to you when you Ctrl+Z?

#5

I’ll have ctrl-z issue not working when I make an adjustment to my custom UI. If I save my zproject, close zbrush, restart zbrush and open the saved zproject again then ctrl-z will not work. I have found if I only save a ztool and load that, instead of opening the zproject, then ctrl-z will work. So, for me, it seems to be related to saving a zproject after an adjustment to the custom UI.

#6

Sorry it took so long to reply, I dont get email from ZBC about updated threads and that that was how I kept track…

Anyhow NOTHING happens, its like Control Z has been disconnected, its sort of strange.
I have not tried to reinstall ZBrush, I have too many copies of it as it is My Pixologic directory is over 5gb and growing and I actually use three different versions for various reasons. Also this doesn’t seem like something reinstalling would fix as it has happened in all the versions I have had since 4.0. That makes sense right?

That sounds like something else as I see this problem right off when I start using ZBrush.
However I am having trouble with saving things from the file menu but its different; basicly a lot of my tools will go invisible and can’t be fixed so I simply don’t save things that way anymore if I can avoid it, this sucks for 2.5D stuff. Sometimes the files just won’t open but I forget the error message at the moment.