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is this the righ place to post technical Q´s to the community at all?

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#1

hi…

i am now wondering if this here is the best location to post tech problems in zbrush?
it doesn´t seem be be very active

is there a better place than here?

thanks for feedback
olaf

#2

Because the holidays there is little activity answering questions. In general is OK.

#3

Stating your question would have been helpful. Large planet, many users. Forums are also searchable, your answer may already be here someplace :wink:

#4

cool. thx
o.

#5

thx doug,

actually i did so

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?198090-problem-with-spotlight-texturing-black-parts-turn-out-not-usaable!

i just remembered that last times i posted somethinkg there was not really respond and that is the reason why i didn´t
come back here… now i was wondering if perhaps the reason was, that i posted into a wrong place or such

;O)

#6

It is also true that doing a basic search before stating a question speed up the resolution of the problems. People tents to ask the same questions. And this doesn’t mean I don’t do the same error, my only point is that can be quicker get a response.
For example if you search in google “spotlight texturing black parts turn out”, that is the statement of your last question, you will find the response in the fourth entry:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php?t-921377.html

Zbrush consider always 0,0,0 back color as transparent. A tiny bright change with spotlight solves the problem.

In other cases a high percentage of questions without responses are because it is difficult to understand the question (lack of examples, too vague, too many questions in one entry etc)

#7

thx altea… will check this out tonight when home.
again; thanks a lot
o.

#8

thanks altea… when i reduce the intensity this works fine again. great!.. i just find it a strange that this problem never occured before when i textured with spotlight… does anyone know: are there any other parameters that cause this affect or have an effect on if the effect shows up?

#9

It has been always there, simply it is not necessarily normal to have lots of pixels with exactly 0,0,0.
If you make darker an image in Photoshop or spotlight then it is likely than the number of pixels that have been clamped to absolute black 0,0,0, will increase.
This is simply one of those quirky things from Zbrush (and certainly no the only one)

#10

:o)