Sweet, thanx aurick for clearing this up for me too, looking forward too the next tut
Superb clear explanations Aurick and as always impressive explanatory writing.
Look forward to others in your series.
hey everybody, this is my first time posting on zbrush and I must say that zbrush rulez.
anyways, ill get to the poince since I talk to much lol.
I was creating a cat’s head in zbrush, when I saved and closed it, I went back into it a few hours later and I couldnt move my object around, why is this?
That’s because your object has been snapshot to the canvas and converted to “pixols”. Go to quick links and check the “New Users” section, specifically the thread titled “Why can’t I edit my object anymore”. It’s explained thoroughly there.
Just a quick note: When you save your document, you are saving the pixols that are on the canvas. You’re not saving the contents of your palettes (alphas, tools, materials that are not currently in use in the canvas, etc.). To save those items – such as the tool that you mention here – you need to save them using the appropriate palette’s inventory functions.
The reason for this is that during the course of a ZBrush session you can end up with dozens of items that you have no interest at all in keeping. Saving those would be a huge waste of disk space. So ZBrush saves your painting with the Document>Save button and lets you choose for yourself anything else that you would like to keep.
that is messed up dude and that is a DEFINATE bug as well, oh well ill do that, thanks allot dude.
if you have the demo version you wont be able to save the tools, and will basically have to completely finish modelling and positioning a model in 1 session.
I’ve just bought Zbrush and I’m studying newbie lesson 1, 2 ( This is my first time get to know 3d program such as Zbrush ). I would like to know when will other lessons in this series be available?
Thank you very much!!
I think I found them. How could Matthew enlarge your canvas like that? Mine is just a little bit black one in the center of the screen.
To enlarge your canvas, change the Width and Height slider in the Document palette. Then either click the Resize or the Crop button. The default size is 640x480, and you can increase the size up to 4096x4096.
Just expanding on what the others just said: You can only enlarge your canvas with the commercial version. If you have the demo, then 640x480 is the only size available to you.
can a marker remember changes that have been made with a 2.5 d brush (alpha)
A maker can remember only 3D objects!
(With texture + materials 
Pilou
Namek, I just started with Zbrush, one day ago to be precise, and I’ m dutch. So I’ m wondering, what is your site’ s Url? I mean, English tutorials are great, but dutch ones are better.
BUMP…Thank you for this, it took me a while to find it, IF I’d only have found it sooner… The opening post informs you of what to expect and operations. This thread would be more useful with updated/better links.