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#1

Hi new here! Can anyone suggest of turning on any feature that will ease for discovering Zbrush? I looked at sculptris and by the looks of it and the tutorial I watched I can easily tell that I can easily catch up w/ the straight forward interface. I was hoping if Zbrush has a ‘beginner’ interface or like of sculptris since its also from Pixologic, Zbrush is great for its ton of features but for beginners I wont be able to use most of it, I just wanna sculpt a character and texture it, I was amazed when all options are ‘dock-able’ to the point that Im being careful that I might misplace an options(I wish theres an option to turn this off), most of the time I keep hitting “Init Zbrush” to reset everything.

Now I cant tell everything that I heard to help beginners I only remember a few like Zspheres supposedly help beginners start faster, basically I want follow most of whats in here http://www.creativebloq.com/15-tips-...zbrush-8134255

But my priority is a friendlier interface and a off button for this ‘docking’ of Zbrush

#2

http://docs.pixologic.com/reference-guide/

#3

If you’re looking for a specific interface, there are many custom ones floating around online as its very easy to create your own. Don’t worry about misplacing anything; once you have your interface saved (Preferences: Config: SaveUI, save in \ZBrush 4R6\ZStartup\UserInterfaceLayouts), you’ll be able to use the arrows in the top-right of your zbrush window to cycle through any UI layout that is saved there (including the default). This will let you change UIs on the fly without having to reinitialize zbrush, which means you could even set up different layouts depending on the task you’re doing.

As for picking up the UI in general, I think the important thing is to get caught up on the difference between the Document, and the 3D Tool. Once that clicks the program feels a lot easier to use, and you can start to hide things on the shelves that you might not require (such as the buttons for zooming and panning the document if you only care about sculpting), while gradually bringing out buttons that you might use more frequently (such as symmetry options or stroke/curve settings, perhaps even some favorite brushes or materials).

#4

One in this thread I made>> http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?182678-Custom-UI