In this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AfV2hmSmqo
The guy says that you can get the lasso selector with Ctrl+Shift+M
I can’t. Mine just stays as the rectangle selection. The only way i can change it is to go to the brushes palette and choose the lasso from there. Is he saying the right keyboard shortcut?
That’s an old version of ZBrush he’s using (3.1). Things have changed quite a bit since then and there are more selection options.
If you hold Ctrl+Shift then you can choose which selection brush you want from the pop-up. That will then remain the selection brush for the ZBrush session unless you choose a different one.
You can find the keyboard shortcuts etc. here:
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/keyboard-shortcuts/
Great. Thank you
EDIT: just tried this and I don’t see a pop-up when I hit Ctrl-Shift. I get a circle with a cross in the centre and on the edge of the circle is a small lasso and a square box made of dotted lines.
Sorry, my bad - poor explanation.
To use the current selection brush, simply hold Ctrl+Shift.
To change the selection brush, hold Ctrl+Shift and click on the large current brush thumbnail (left of the interface, at the top, just below the Projection Master button).
ah cool. Thanks. That reveals a whole pile of new brushes I hadn’t seen before but they are for selecting instead of sculpting, right?
One thing that bugs me is the way the lasso selector works. I would like it to just draw a lasso (like photoshop does) instead of connecting up the beginning and the current position of the pointer to create that big green island thing.
Is that possible as an option, do you know?
Like Marcus suggested. Alternatively you can hit B,S and then L to get the Select Lasso. Then B,S and R to get the Select Rectangle.
There’s no way to get rid of the green island. It shows what will be selected and you don’t have to connect up the ends of the selection. A few other points:
The selection brushes include some brushes that affect the mesh, such as the Clip and Trim brushes.
many thanks both