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Loading ztools over 4gb in size = impossible?

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#1

I have amd hexcore 3ghz, 8gb of ram and Windows 7 64 bit.

I’ve been working on a tool with a few subtools and last night I hit the 4gb filesize mark. I saved the tool and closed zbrush. Today when I was going to resume the work I got an error “Error has been encountered while trying to load a tool. Loading has been aborted.”

Unfortunately nothing I do seems to help at all. I tried putting zbrush in high priority in task manager, increasing my max poly setting in zbrush, turning down undo levels. Nothing works.

Is there a way to split up 4+gb files? Can I somehow export a single subtool out of the .ztl files?

Most of my backups are useless as well as they are above 4gb in size. :frowning:

I guess I’ll only work on a single subtool at any time from now on but that might cause some scaling issues, one of the reason I put all my subtools into the same tool was because I kept getting different scaled from each piece when sending it to 3dsm.

#2

To help with file sizes always save at your lowest subd levels. No mask on any tool. Remove uvs if not needed
You won’t be able to open that tool again I’m sorry to say. Working with .Zpr should hemp as well. Commuting layers to the mesh will also help with file sizes.

#3

Thanks for the tips. I’m pretty sure I left all subtools visible at their highest subdivision level with pretty detailed masking and a few layers. At least this won’t happen again.

Would have been nice if there was any warning from zbrush when files are getting close to the limit, unless I accidentally missed it.

#4

I have the same issue. 50 subtools all at there lowest subdivision with no layers. Its just over 4 GB and now it cant reopen. Seems to work fine until I close it and try to re-open.? There must be a way to open these files!!

This is crap. Whens zbrush going to step up its game to 64 bit. Were all waiting!

#5

soulty666

Yep, crap. If you save in iterations you can start to break up the mesh into smaller chunks. Top half of a character in one scene, lower half in another. Not the best solution, but it is something for now.

#6

I tried .Zpr but by bong is still empty, damn. j/k
:lol: