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Retopology tool issues

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#1

In ZB 4 I used to append a zsphere and click on edit topology. Choosing a bump shader may help a bit.
I did exactly the same in zb4 r2 and started working. Unfortunately when navigating as I work, makes the whole cage almost invisible (i can’t see vertices clearly). Now I have to guess and click one to make cage visible again. Just moving the camera a bit makes it invisible again. After some more tries, zbrush just crashed.

I believe it’s a redraw major issue.

  1. Running under MAC OSX
  2. can you fix it as possible, making zb4 r2 a usable tool, or should I go back to really stable zb 4 ?
  3. After crashing (a lot on r2) I can’t find a way to find the last autosaved file. Where is it?
  4. If I run zb4 and trying to use GoZ sculptris, this leads to zb4r2. How can I fix this?
#2

in fact, you don’t need to do that procese since the retopology problem is now fixed the back wire is now in black color.

#3

Thanks for reply allaze-eroler!
OK, this changed. But I can’t work with it. It’s confusing and not practical. Just try an ear or a thin face.
No, there’s a major issue here and pixologic seems that is facing a major bug.
More crashes and still no recovery… some help please.

#4

mind if you could share the problem ? i mean : show an example as a screenshot. this way, the support and i could see better the problem.

#5

It’s a redraw issue… how to show this? I have to make a video,
anyway, a simple question… how to recover a file after crashing? I have autosave on! where is it?

I see though, now, as we move vertices they remain snapping to the surface. Wow, they fixed this. But when subdividing an edge, now we have to use move tool else it doesn’t snap.
Do we call this a useful tool? No love on humble tools?

#6

ah that is an other problem… well, since i’m not a mac user, i will give you the link for to how to record what happen on your mac : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081114004723AAK3keK the other solution is to get camtasia for mac but it will cost around 100€… i’m sure there an alternate software that is free and open source.

#7

As far as recovered files, at least on a PC there is a Recovered Files Folder in the ZBrush Directory. That’s where any successful recovered files have been when I have a crash.

#8

But it crashed on me, after I was almost done with the head of a lion, I created a while back ! Spent a couple hours geting thru the hard parts, ears, eyes ,mouth and throat, And it crashed when I was doing something, not sure what, using a wacom and my fingers are always moving around the shortcut keys.

There was no recovered file, and I saved the file previously after first hour, The file I save only had the mesh I created in retopo
up to that point! a ghost of the original lions mesh! Is there a way to save the project so I may return to it, during the reto phase, am leary of going thru that again! Would like to save every 30 minutes , so I don’t lose to much.

Other than the crash the, retopo tool seems to work good! One other thing, is there a way to clear the draw tool, when zoomed
in close, and no open space around mesh to click, have been zooming out ,to click on open area, then zooming in again , may have been what I was doing when crash! Any help Please . Thanks

#9

The new QuickTime Player that shipped with Snow Leopard and up, will do screen recording. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as Camtasia, but it’ll get you going for no extra cost.
For a very good and affordable 3rd party OSX solution, Google iShowU.

On OSX there’s a similar ‘Recovered Files’ folder. /Applications/ZBrushOSX\ 4R2/Recovered\ Files/

#10

@Lone Deranger
I know all about QTX and capturing video. I’m just losing my time trying to prove a bug.
the path under OSX is
applications/zbrushOSX 4R2/Recovered files, empty after retopo crashing.

OK I’ll live with these. Let’s forget retopology. Antiartistic these days.

#11

Thanks for the info. We will run more tests on OSX and if we identify a problem, it will be fixed in the next update patch.

#12

Support, would you also mind running the tests I outlined in the thread posted below please? Thank you.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?161519-Negative-Subtractive-CurveTube-Brush-Transpose-Positive-Additive-Dynamesh-result&p=895886#post895886