Questions & Troubleshooting for ZBrush 4R5

jBibble · July 4, 2019, 1:28am

I’m running Mac 10.8.2.

Does deleting earlier versions of Zbrush make GoZ break? For instance if 4R2 was on the machine with 4R5 then you delete the 4R2 folder, would that mess with GoZ functionality of 4R5?

I was using maBackward.py for backward ascii compatibility but I was told that in 4R5 this was fixed, but when I unload this python script I get errors.

Now Zbrush is saying clear up memory, delete or empty trash before it can proceed with GoZ (sending to Maya).

Ideas?

Thx

hellerd · July 4, 2019, 1:29am

Hi,

QuickSave goes through the motion of saving and tells me that the file has been saved successfully, but the QuickSave folder has not had any new files saved to it in two days. I searched my computer to see if the ZPR files were somehow going somewhere else, but they’re not.

I think this might have started after I did a system restore a couple of days ago (I was having video card crashes after I updated my video card driver). The restore point was six days earlier. Everything else seems to be working, I just can’t QuickSave or auto save.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Barbara

hellerd · July 5, 2019, 2:01pm

Never mind, I figured it out. The restore changed the number sequence of the QuickSave files so that they were a lower number than the older files. Deleting all of the old files fixed it.

hellerd · July 4, 2019, 1:29am

Hi,

I’ve been unable to get good results making a unified skin from a ZSketch in V4R5, even when I begin with Dynamic unchecked.
I eventually had to redo the sketch within V4R4, which worked fine.

I hope you can get this fixed in the next update.

Thanks

system · July 5, 2019, 1:45am

when I use symmertry, got it’s in a bad place ???

Attachments

symmetry error.jpg

jBibble · July 4, 2019, 1:30am

Is this supposed to be the best place to get issues resolved for GoZ 4R5? It seems rather hit or miss. Does anyone know one know about issues with GoZ 4R5 on Mac? SubTool Master export error issues?

Help!

system · July 5, 2019, 2:01pm

Or any word on when it will be fixed? This is kind of a must have feature for me…

ArdaE:

I’ll open a ticket for these, but thought I’d post them here first. Especially the first one might save someone a lot of time (see the workaround I mention):

When using GoZ from ZBrush to Maya, exporting a mesh with a vertex count that is an exact multiple of 165 plus 1 causes the import to Maya to fail. When the vertex count is 165*n+1, ZBrush tries to setAttr on a single vertex using a range syntax (see below), which Maya doesn’t like.
setAttr “.vt[1650:1650]”
37.22137 6.81043 1.06252;
Adding a vertex or deleting a vertex in ZBrush before exporting fixes the GoZ issue.

Assigning the scroll wheel like a hotkey doesn’t work on Mac. When I Ctrl-Alt-click on an element such as Draw Size, I get the “…assign custom hotkey…” message as expected. But then when I scroll the mouse wheel or use my Wacom tablet’s scroll strip, nothing happens.

Draw palette: Not sure if this is intentional, but negative values of Grid Elevation work the same way as positive values when the Snap feature is turned off.

Projection Master doesn’t seem to work at all on a Mac.

Double-clicking on a .zpr file (or .obj, etc.) in Finder on Mac brings up ZBrush as expected. However if the path to the file contains any spaces, then ZBrush displays some error and fails to load the file. The space causes problems whether it’s in the file name itself, or any of its parent folders.

Tool->Geometry->qRemesher->DetectCurve => “Sorry, this function requires the full version of the QRemesher plugin”. However in 4R5, QRemesher is not available as a separate plugin as far as I understand it.

Polypainting issue: Apply something like Tool->Surface->Noise->NoiseMaker->Marble on a model without a uv or texture map. Polypainting becomes impossible until you create a uv map, enable texture map, and disable texture map.

Dynamesh’s Project option doesn’t seem to work at all (I get very messy faces out of even a simple cube). I get much cleaner results if I duplicate the subtool first, re-dynamesh, and Project All myself.

UV Master -> WorkOnClone sometimes gives a scripting error. (I can’t replicate this right now, so I don’t remember what the exact error message is).

The background of the tooltip/help windows that comes up when I hold the Cmd key down over a menu item is too transparent. If the canvas/model has light colours, it is impossible to read the tooltip text.

Minor issues aside, thanks for building such an amazing product. ZBrush is one of the most fun tools I’ve ever used.

Dhams · July 5, 2019, 1:50am

How to fix zbrush4R2 unable to record brush strokes error.any one know about this error plz help me.

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4-20-2013 5-03-41 AM.jpg

system · July 5, 2019, 2:02pm

I second that.

I like Zbrush so far, but it’s frustrating that Projection Master isn’t working at all and that there is no ETA when this will be fixed ,or any further words about that issue.
Regarding to Pixologic’s blog, this is known since December last year at least.

Feeling a bit forsaken here

Dhams · July 4, 2019, 1:35am

thanks you i also fix that.thanks a lot for comment.

markisSBG · July 4, 2019, 11:33am

I’ve researched and can’t find any fix. Sorry if this is a no-brainer… With the upgrade to 4R5 PaintStop won’t load. Get this message about a PaintStop_4_11Win.txt script:

PaintStop 4R5 error.JPG

Thanks…

Doug_Jones · July 4, 2019, 1:36am

What is your OS?

marcus_civis · July 5, 2019, 2:02pm

Can you show a screenshot of Windows Explorer with your ZStartup/ZPlugs folder open so I can see the contents please?

Thanks

markisSBG · July 4, 2019, 11:33am

Thanks for the questions…

OS is Win7 Pro

Here’s a screen shot of the ZPlugs folder:

Thanks again!

Totyo · July 4, 2019, 1:36am

markisSBG : you have several time the same plugin (.zsc files) then ZBrush is trying to load them at the same time, creating several issues.

Simply remove (or backup) the :

adjustDFZsize_4.zsc (and keep the 4.5)

imageplane_4_16.zsc (and keep the 4_19)

paintstop_4_11Win.zsc (and keep the 4_12)

SubToolMaster_4_05.zsc (and keep the 4_07)

TransposeMaster_4_12.zsc (and keep the 4R5_01)

Each time you do an update of a plugin, you must remove the old one.

I hope it will help!

markisSBG · July 4, 2019, 1:36am

A big “Thank You” to everyone for the help! Totyo, removing those file worked great. Thanks again!

Lawrence.Kaplan · July 4, 2019, 1:36am

Greetings,

I need a little help. I created a custom palette (successfully) and saved the config, but then I noticed that my geometry palette disappeared. I can get it back – if I restore the original config, but that means loosing all the special tweaks and changes I’ve made to the interface over the last 8 months. Does anyone know if there is an easy way to reopen – reinstall – the geometry palette? Hopefully there is.

Thanks

Doug_Jones · July 5, 2019, 2:02pm

No tool=no geometry…if it doesn’t apply, it doesn’t show up. I’ve struggled with this. The menus are context sensitive.

Lawrence.Kaplan · July 4, 2019, 1:36am

I thought this might be the case, but unfortunately no. I have a tool. In fact I quit, restarted and added a tool, even appended it, and still no geometry and all the selections below like deformations. All are missing. Completely gone. If there’s any chance that there is something I can do to an outer folder, for example, please let me know. This is totally befuddling. Help!!

system · July 4, 2019, 1:37am

How can i translate tris to quads in Zbrush 4R5 ?, is it even posible?, or any option that might work, without third party software?

Sculptris Alpha 6 / GoZ / Zbrush 4R5

441450 triangles

The importation, was increadibly good, some smooth makes it look great.

HOW DO I MAKE MY OWN POST BY THE WAY ?

Im totally first timer on this posting stuff and Sculptris Zbrush WORLD, HeLp !