Subtools vanish from viewport for 120 degrees of rotation

[CWR63]

I’ve been using Zbrush for almost 2 years and not encountered this problem before. I GoZ a figure in from DAZ Studio to fix some attached props; I try to draw it in a few times but I’m not seeing anything. Switch on edit, select the top subtool and frame selection and I now can see it - which is something that’s not occurred before, but, whatever.

When I rotate my viewpoint or camera the objects disappear for about 90 to 120 degrees of the full rotation - unless I zoom out pretty far - the gizmo is still visible, but no subtools. DAZ Studio makes tiny objects (although no problems before this) so I used deformation to scale a hundredfold and repeat to other - three times - no difference. Perspective on or off, no difference. Rotating with RMB or LMB, no difference (my disability means that I use a mouse).

Still visible:

One degree more:

120 degrees rotation and it looks like some sort of clipping plane:

One more degree and all visible again:

How far I must zoom out to make tools visible:

My PC specs:

I’m using Shane Olson’s UI from his 3D Character Workshop. Should I be scaling everything using the 3D Gizmo rather than deformation?

Intel i7 5960x 3 Ghz 8 core processor
64 GB DDR4 2400 RAM

Thanks for any help!
CWR

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[marcus_civis]

I think you’ve somehow filled the canvas. This creates a layer of color at Z-depth = 0. You can clear it by pressing Ctrl+N (or Color>Clear).

[CWR63]

Should have mentioned that was the first thing I tried, so that’s not the problem - I doubled the surfaces of all subtools and activated polyframe, but without a bounding box display I can’t see any hidden objects in the scene. When I rotate with perspective turned on, everything yo-yos into the distance and still disappears for that arc segment.

Because of the chaotic scene structure of DAZ Studio, I’m thinking some scene light or other non-polygonal object got unintentionally parented to one of the subtools. I’ll export the figure and attached props into a seperate file and make sure it’s clean before I Goz it again - no big deal to redo the work. Since discovering I could export cameras from DAZ Studio into Marmoset Toolbag, I’ve been trying to use the advantages of these 3 softwares to create a single scene in camera still render - but the shortcomings of each may prove to negate their combined strengths.

[dillster]

Sometimes Gozing a whole figure sends other bits of geometry as well. Try selecting one part of the body (arm for instance) and Goz the Object (not a full figure) across. Sending Object will only send that selected part and will allow you to test and see if your theory is right.

[CWR63]

Yeah it came in fine the second time - sorry, forgot to close out this thread. Now I have a UV map that I can’t delete… nevermind, I had polys hidden - didn’t know that would keep you from deleting a UV map, I just lucked out - there’s no documentation concerning this.