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size presure in 3.5

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Hi,

In zb3.1 we had under preferences, the option to set the size presure to whatever value, meaning 0 won’t affect the size of the brush, and 1 the size of the brush will be totally affected by the presure of the wacom.
In 3.5 however, this doesn’t happen, I have to go to the brush menu, tablet presure, and change it there, for each of the brushes im using, and doing it every time i start zb3.5…is there any way to either store those changes of make the presure work like in 3.1?

cheers

#2

I’m not sure if this is what your after or not , but, got to Preferences / Tablet and you can change size sensitivity there from 0 to 1, but you have to then go to Preferences / Config and click “Store Config” button to keep settings so they are there every time you start Zbrush. Hope this was what you were after.

#3

HEY ZBER2, THANKS For the reply, that is the way i used to do it in zb3.1, but in 3.5 doesn´t work like that anymore, you have the preferences as you said, but it does nothing changing the value…any help? cheers

#4

I just tried it and I see what you mean. When you set it in Preferences, it doesn’t matter if it’s at 0 or 1 Size sensitivity, it still does the same thing. I presume you are using a Wacom. Have you tried making adjustments in the “Wacom Tablet Properties” to see if that gets the settings were you want them ? If you want different settings with each brush then I really don’t know if there is a way to do that and save the setting for each brush. Sorry I couldn’t be more help. Maybe support will chime in on this and give a solution.

#5

I have been trying to find a setting for this as well. No luck. If you do not mind relying on a script for setting the tablet settings of each brush, I might have one ready in a little while. Let me know if there are any other brush settings you want to set globally. Right now I am just adding the Tablet Pressure curves.

Mark

#6

can’t you just change the settings in the brush palette and then overwrite the original brush like we all had to do with the smooth brush in 3.1?

#7

I also prefer the 3.1 for size pressure,having to change it for every brush is a bit boring

#8

I wrote the following plugin mainly to test various Tablet Pressure curves with various brushes and became a little tired of loading the curves for each brush. It is not intended as a global tablet property adjustment, like the old 3.1 Tablet settings under preferences. But maybe someone here finds it useful.

[attach=158498]ZBC_TabletSettingsPalette.gif[/attach] Installation: Unzip the .zip file with folders intact into the ../ZStartup/Zplugs folder of your ZBrush 3.5R2 installation. The plugin will be available under Zplugin > Tablet Settings the next time you start ZBrush. Usage: Select a brush that has Tablet Pressure curves you want to use and press Store Tablet Curves. The switches determine which curves are stored (Size / Z Intensity / RGB Intensity / Brushmod / Brush Imbed). Select which group of brushes to affect (Current / All / Default / User) and press Apply Tablet Curves. The switches determine which curves are applied (Size / Z Intensity / RGB Intensity / Brushmod / Brush Imbed). Notes: User brushes are considered to be brush number 97 and up. The reason for this is that there are 97 brush presets in the ZData/BrushPresets folder (the brush number is 0 based). The curves and switches are stored from session to session. With a polymesh tool selected the modeling brushes are affected. With a Zsphere selected the zsketch brushes are affected. irregardless of current tool the smoothing brushes are not affected. As I said the plugin is not really intended for day to day usage but just for my own testing. Going further with this could possibly be a waste of time if we get 3.5 R3 next week (pretty please :)).

Edit: Don’t be alarmed when your ZBrush UI goes ballistic. I could not hide the actions as it messed up the curve display (not updating properly).

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