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ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi there, im new to ZBrush (and 3D modelling in general after growing bored of 15 years of strictly 2D) and have been using Eric Keller’s “Introducing ZBrush” book to learn by. I have noticed some problems with the document and macro files that were included with the book. The Macro files, which show step-by-step constructing thru the chapters, don’t render on screen, and the document files render flat, as if only a shilouette of the object is present. The document should show a group of simple 3D objects.

If anyone is familiar with this book, it is the underwater scene project that I am referring to.

I also get quite a few crashes, which i have submitted to Pixologic and Apple.

Due to my lack of familiarity with Brush at this point, I would like to know if this a bug related to the OSX release? If it is, am I still able to use my Windows version of ZBrush despide getting a new license, until the OSX version is more stable?

Also, i saw in other threads that it may be poor configuration. Is there a link or thread that states what the best configuration is? The system I am using is a Mac Pro with dual 3GHz 4-core Xeon & 6GB RAM, OSX 10.5.5.

Kind regards,

Court

#2

It’s likely that your macros won’t work due to changed functionality between 3.0 or 3.1 (whichever the book was written for) and version 3.12.

#3

Thank you. I think i will set up my PC to run zbrush alongside the mac (assuming the PC license is still valid) and try the turtorials with both versions open–can be a good way to note the new features when im not aware of those that are new :slight_smile:

#4

in case it would be helpful, I have the exact same problem you are describing here with the files from that same book and Zbrush OSX 3.12, not only the macros acting flaky but the files themselves don’t display properly and unstable as you describe.

Also, when I made the image size at 3096 by 1742 as it suggests in the tutorial, Zbrush didn’t seem to like it become crash prone and kept showing screen artifacts when painting or doing anything. I changed the image size to something like 1800x1000 and seemed to work much better. But I after all the problems I had with the tutorial I more or less gave up on it and moved on to just experimenting and learning the various concepts, tools, etc on my own. I suspect the final version will work out these kinks.