ZBrushCentral

Problem hiding parts of a mesh

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Greetings Everyone,

I’m attaching a .jpg showing two arms, constituting one subtool. All hidden polygons have been deleted, and all masks have been cleared. I want to separate the arms into two subtools. The only way I know to do that is to hide one arm, delete hidden, and save that as, say, R-Arm.ztl, and, similarly for L-Arm.ztl. Problem is, I do a Ctrl+Shift+Alt to hide one arm or the other, and nothing happens. I do get my green marqee; then, with Alt, the red marqee. But no result. (Same if I do just Ctrl-Shift to hide the opposite arm.)

So, my arms refuse to be hidden. Does anyone have any idea what might cause that?

DocPit

Attachments

TwoArms.JPG

#2

No idea what is causing your problem, but your workflow is rather off.

If you go to tool>polygroup>autoGroup it will assign different polygroups to each mesh object that isn’t continuous.

From there tool>subtool>groupSplit

This will break your two different groups into two different subtools.

#3

It’s possible you haven’t turned of symmetry when trying to hide.

#4

Many thanks for your responses. Yes, I can see my workflow was clunky at best. Your suggestion is a much better way. And, yes, I did have symmetry on. Once I think about, of course, turning it off makes sense! Thanks, again.