ZBrushCentral

Two feature requests

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

  1. Right now the ALT+LMB does three things. It reverses the stroke, it auto-selects subtools, and it frames the mesh. The ALT+LMB should be for reversing your brush stroke only. The ‘auto-select’ shortcut needs to be changed from ALT+LMB to something else and I suggest ALT+SHIFT+LMB. I make folds, clothing, wrinkles. When doing this I use standard brush and lazy stroke. I make and break folds constantly and quickly. In this work flow, I use LMB and ALT+LMB back and forth constantly. If I forget to turn off ‘auto-select’ then the workflow is crippled. I have used zbrush eight hours a day for five or six years. I have already put the ‘auto-select’ button on my UI for easy access. The auto-select should simply be ALT+SHIFT+LMB.

  2. Since ZBrush 4.0 came out we do not need the thin white line around the viewport. The thin white line was originally intended to rotate a mesh by using LMB+drag in the viewport. If the artist, for instance, was working on the tip of the nose of a character and the canvas was no where to be seen in the viewport, the artist could rotate by LMB+drag outside the thin white line. Now, with ZBrush 4.0, the pen stylus can rotate the mesh with hover+RMB. So now the thin white line is obsolete.

Thank you.

#2

Regarding point 1 above, more of the problem:

I use spotlight quite a bit. As I am positioning my mesh behind a spotlight image I am scaling in and out to match the sizing. As I do so often my mesh will suddenly go into ‘frame’, meaning the mesh will be right in my face, huge. This is because I have been using lmb+alt on the canvas as I am moving, scaling, and rotating my mesh behind the spotlight image. Suddenly ZBrush will interpret my lmb+alt as a ‘frame mesh’ shortcut because I tapped the canvas.

As people that use this workflow can attest - lmb ‘tap’ with alt is often needed to do a SLIGHT adjustment in getting the mesh into the proper position with the spotlight image. So, again, I have to be sure to turn off ‘auto-select subtool’ so my mesh quits throwing itself into my face and screwing up my near perfect position.

Thank you.