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Interactive Light loves to crash my Zbrush

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#1

Most of the time I use the Interactive light, I get it to move around for a few seconds, then the program gives me an “Abnormal Termination”.

I’m not sure what specs are relevant but here’s the system I have:

64 bit Windows
16 GB RAM
Intel Quad Core 2.8 Ghz processor
Samsung SSD with over 350 available GB
AMD Radeon 6800 series video card

I have only a little understanding of how Zbrush uses the computer hardware, but to my knowledge, I have plenty of firepower.
Nothing else crashes Zbrush when I use it. Any Suggestions?

Thanks

#2

Interactive light is buggy. I simply don’t use it for that reason.

#3

Same experience as beta and yourself. I just don’t use it now. Pity really as it is a great feature when it works.

#4

You may find this thread useful:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?181076-Interactive-Light-causes-ZCrash-Solved

#5

Thanks for the link. However the poster says it can’t be used as a button, which is exactly hot I want to use it. I have a custom popup menu and I want to have the button on that.

Maybe I’ll just have to put the Light Icon in my menu instead. It’s too bad though cause that thing is so big.

#6

OK, here’s a version of the plugin that doesn’t need a hotkey (I posted the plugin in that thread).

Unzip the file to your Desktop, then move the Marcus-InteractiveLight.zsc to your ZStartup/ZPlugs. Restart ZBrush and you should find a new button in the ZPlugin>Misc Utilities sub-palette called InteractiveLight~. (The ~ is so you can tell the button from the original.)

Press the hotkey and then move the cursor around to position the light. You can also click the mouse/pen to stop. If you get the blue donut or ZBrush does its busy thing, just wait as it will soon stop. This version has a short loop which will exit quite quickly. Because of this, you may need to press the button again if the plugin stops before you have done adjusting the light.

#7

Thanks for getting back to me Marcus!
I should have seen that in the thread as well. Sorry.
I loaded it - and it works beautifully! It works just as well in my custom menu, so thank you very much.

I will enjoy it :lol:

#8

No problem, I hope you find it useful. :slight_smile: