@bicc39 There’s option on that window, that let You set this window to open up only when there’s something new.
@kollatt It’s a known bug.
You don’t want to permanently turn it off
apologies but yes I do, how do I do this?
kollatt… what is a known bug?
That home page interferes with GoZ applications???
If so I blew 14 hours on installing, uninstalling, reinstalling to find what was the cause.
I went through about 15 setups trying to find what was wrong
This is the kind of thing that no doubt drives the license section slightly batty.
Also, know this is heresy, but do not spend days/hours combing Pixologic site.
To me Zbrush is a tool, most valuable, not a membership in a coven
I dont like that window either, but for me its because it doesn’t like my internet connection. For me it hangs forever and then crashes taking ZBrush with it.
I should point out that the networks I usually use have extreme latency, what most people refer to as Lag.
You can use the Gear menu to make it so it never comes up unless there’s something new, but if, like me, you dont want it at all you can do this (on windows):
- Hit fn F3 to turn off your network.
- Run ZBrush, it will come up with out that window.
- Hit fn F3 again to turn your network back on.
Its as easy as that.
All it is is a web page and with no internet access it simply doesn’t pop up.
@bicc39 Just set that option. It won’t appear anymore (it doesn’t for me at least, and I’ve relaunched ZBrush like 40 times already)
For people who want the option to not have Home Page launch at all just go to “ZBrush 4R8/ZScripts” and make a slight change in the “DefaultZScript.txt” file. The launcher for it is in there. You don’t have to delete the code in case you change your mind. Just put 2 forward slashes before the line of code as highlighted in green in the following image then save the file. You can still access the Home Page by clicking the button in ZBrush. If you want to revert, just remove the 2 forward slashes and save.
We strongly discourage you to do it that way. The “HomePage” system has a preference (gear icon on its top bar) where you can set this tool to appears only if we provide you new news. This is the best way to be aware of new system patches and updated and of course, training content and such. We won’t spam you! 
We strongly discourage you to do it that way. The “HomePage” system has a preference (gear icon on its top bar) where you can set this tool to appears only if we provide you new news. This is the best way to be aware of new system patches and updated and of course, training content and such. We won’t spam you!
I strongly disagree. So, what you are saying is that people are incapable of clicking the “Home Page” button in ZBrush on their own, to check it whenever it is convenient for them?
I believe that, even when the option “only if news is updated” is selected, the plugin is still queried to see if there is any new updates when ZBrush is launched. This can cause problems for some people as has already been posted.
This is my opinion. Sorry.
Thank you Meal but my problem is unique to this.
I use Daz Studio and its goz bridge to make morphs.
Figure is in DAZ scene ,button is hit, figure is sent to zbrush.
The sending of the figure literally opens Zbrush program
Morph is created and then sent back to Daz.
Some figures are unique and the settings have to be exact or sending back from Zbrush to
Daz results in a failure.
What has happened is that Daz sends the figure to Zbrush, Zbrush opens with home page and lightbox.
They are shut down, figure is worked on and sent back to Daz.
Somewhere in this procedure the actual bridge setup is broken and Daz does not know it is importing a morph.
It has been a long few hours determining the cause.
This is important to me and worth the work to solve.
I had a pipeline that worked for me for many months.
Now it does not. what went wrong??
Took long hours to determine this.
My workflow is more important to me than “catching up”.
Hate to say this but my workflow is more important to me than the improvements in the new version.
Now I fear it is lost
Also consider…we are talking about dismantling a link!!!
You can always go online on your own.
Thank you all for your help, appreciate it but solution still pending
T H A N K Y O U !!!
very very much!!!
(Where were you about 20 hours and 4 installations ago :D)
LOL…no problem bicc39:)
There’s an issue on some systems where the mesh momentarily doubles up each time you navigating around it. Is there any solution? Is it a known issue?
***Edit-This is entirely fixed in the P1 update. Amazing! Thank you Pixologic!!!***
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@tukor Went down to 38 (lowest possible). Working fine. But I’m on 1920x1200.
I dont know why its happening to me or if its just me.
I get this error in other menus too, like when you create a new custom UI and it ask for a name for the new menu.
I cant enter anything unless i set the buttons size to 46+
Thanks for that Zber. In addition to that, when I customized my 4r8 interface, I removed the Homepage and Lightbox buttons.
One small observation on buttons is that the primary and secondary colour swatches have switched places in 4r8, which means the Document background color is now set from the button on the right instead of left. Not a big deal as we can move them back when customizing.
hello there, my enthousiatic day turns into nightmare…have problems here to. I’ll make it short
I downloaded the full installer, (didn’t deactivate my4r7, cause I can’t select it inthe list?!) thenI installed it on my PC with admin right and disable kapersky,
At launch I have the MSVCR120.dll and sclupteo script error, as mention already page 1&2 of this thread, (where can I find this DLL, it’s not even listed on Microsoft site!?)
ZBrush launch and ask for activation, go to the site, generate my code…
Then no way to enter my registration code, either by pasting or typing, so ZB don’t start, well it quit!
I reinstall a second time with everything checked, kapersky disable…nothing change, I tried to uninstall 4r8… It appears nowhere, not in the software bar, not in the list of software installed on my PC… all I can do is put the pixologic folder to the trashcan, which is not the way to uninstall a software on a PC, right?
Then I decided to reverse the state of my PC with a system restore point to 1 week earlier, guess what? The only file that’s gone is the ZBrush.exe , but the all Pixologic/zbrush 4R8 is still there (1.29GO)
Are people really having trouble with the Home news feature? I set it to only appear when there’s new information, and I haven’t seen the thing since the first time I started R8.
vlad74 :
Hi guys. I am in the middle of a commercial project. If I clean install 4R8 can I go back to 4R7 is something goes berserk?
Thank you!
S-ed :
@vlad74 My answer will be: NO, You can’t!
Cause, even while You can have both 4R7 and 4R8. Files from 4R8 won’t open in 4R7. So once your project saved in 4R8 You’re locked to this version (You could export files tho).
Yep … Should have mentioned this.
I was referring to the installation of 4r8 itself and being able to use 4r7 in itself, but yes : 4r8 files unfortunately are not backwards compatible with 4r7.
@Spyndel:
Not any more, I did that too and it went away.
My problem was that it wouldn’t load so I couldn’t get at the gear menu.
Once it did load and I could get at it I changed it so it only comes up when there’s new stuff.
Just to help get this noticed, another user made a post showing that any Transpose functions that use Right Click appear to be broken in R8. For instance the Ctrl-rt click drag to inflate invokes navigation functionality. If right click navigation is disabled, it brings up the mini panel instead.
This is sort of a general question about boolean meshes and their edges.
How are people dealing with the geometry between polygroups?
I find so far that its extremely jagged and I cant figure out how to smooth it, I have tried dynamesh, ZRemesher, subdivision, various forms of polish (mainly in the Deformation pallet) and things like GroupLoops and EdgeLoop, and yet no matter what I do if I mess with the resulting object after using Live Boolean I get nasty messed up edges.
Am I doing it wrong?
I have to be missing something, the initial results are beautiful but nearly un-editable.
Seems difficult for my new version to replace the 4r7 in GoZ connections.
No idea why.
I’m on a MacBook Pro, Sierra.
Isn’t this switch supposed to happen automatically after a new Zbrush install?
Meshes from some programs to Zbrush 4r8 claim to have lost paths.
Meshes from Zbrush claim to have exported but no mesh is visible or in there at all.
Meshes to Zbrush can show up as cubes rather than the actual mesh shapes.
After I went back to 4r7, it started to imitate this behaviour as well. Which I found very weird.
After a bit of panic, I got 4r7 working right again but now I’m not really ready to try this again,
with 4r8, in fear of repeating these complications/errors.
(I have re-installed 4r8 several times, after I got 4r7 working as it should again.)
What am I missing? Is there something that is supposed to be moved in anyway between folders now that I have two versions of Zbrush? Was I supposed to deactivate 4r7 before moving on to the new version? Does anybody else have anything like this?
Try reinstalling GoZ. There’s an installer for that in your ZBrush 4R8\Troubleshoot Help folder.