Question about subtool saving.

[chrono1081]

Hi guys,

First off, let me say I did look at the ZBrush manual, but I’ve had some strange issues and just want to make sure I am understanding saving ZTools correctly.

I have three questions:

1. What is the difference between saving a subtool with the “Save As” button in the tool palette vs saving a subtool using Subtool Master?

2. If I save the top level subtool using the Tool menu’s “Save As” command that saves the tool and all of its subtools correct?

3. If I want to save only a subtool and no other part of a subtool or a base mesh is there a way to do it?

4. Is there a special way to save a ZTool with all of the texture or polypaint information attached? The reason I ask this is because before I’d save a ZTool (using the ZTool palette’s Save As", and the materials assigned to it are gone when I’d load them back up. Well, this time I loaded a ZTool of the snowman I posted earlier and all subtools, materials, and colors loaded too! (This was in a new document not in a saved document). I was happy about it but according to the manual (unless I misunderstood) thatonly the mesh, not the materials should have loaded.

Sorry for all the questions but it’ll help clear up a lot of confusion for me with saving. I also promise once I learn this program well to help others

[beta_channel]

File>Save

This will save a zbrush project that contains all the textures, materials, document settings, ALL tools, etc. You can then load this through file>load as well.

There isn’t a difference between subtool save and tool save anymore. It used to be important to save through subtool master but I don’t believe it is anymore.

To save a single tool you need select the subtool you want to save and go to tool>clone (near the top). Then select that tool and tool>save

Hope this helps.

[chrono1081]

Thanks so much

I’m still pretty new to ZBrush and have only used it in a limited fashion so some of these things have been tripping me up