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OK, a really easy noob question

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#1

I’ve ploughed through the videos, but I’m clearly doing something wrong.
I’m trying for my first character.
Created a basic figure using zspheres. Saved both the doc and the tool.
Did sime sculpting - still able to swap back and forth using ‘A’ but every time I amend the zspheres I lose my changes in the sculpt.

  1. Is there anything I can do about this?

Then I settle on a better basic zsphere body. Save doc and tool. Do some more sculpting. Save everything, doc and tool.
When I get up today, I can load the tool, but can no longer have access to the zspheres. I’m going to need them, down the line, for posing - at present I’m still editing symmetrically, but I’m gonna want to change her pose in time.

  1. Have I missed something, somewhere?

  2. Help??

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#2

The ‘A’ hotkey is used to preview your mesh, as an added functionality you may do some basic sculpting on it before you convert it to a polymesh.

The Zspheres and the polygonal mesh has no direct relation, changing the zspheres will affect the mesh, but changing the mesh won’t affect the zspheres.

So, basically, finish your zsphere stage and then sculpt on the preview mesh, and then convert it etc etc.