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Precise Grab Alpha

I’ve created a heightmap in ZBrush out of a square plane(modeling was restricted to the Y-axis). Now I want to grab the alpha and only the alpha so that I can then export it. So far I’ve tried GrabDoc and MRGBZGrabber but I haven’t been able to grab an alpha that only contains the plane without also grabbing part of the document too. In short, I’d like to set up a top-down view of the plane and grab an alpha of it at 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048, etc., that fills the entire area of the grabbed image.

  1. Change your document size to 512x512.
  2. Draw your plane on the canvas and press F key so plane will fill canvas. Note: plane has to be square.
  3. Go to Alpha > Transfer and click ‘GrabDoc’ button.
  4. Export your alpha.

Do the same as above with other document sizes.