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What brush to use to restrict changes to one direction?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I want to change (raise or lower) vertices only perpendicular to the screen plane, as in 2.5D brushing. What brush can do that? I checked the ZBrush doc, it seems like the Magnify brush can do it, if the ‘Magnify value’ is set to 0. But where is that control?

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Magnify The Magnify brush moves vertices away from the cursor, and optionally displaces them up or down; it’s the inverse of the Pinch Brush. The name comes from the appearance of vertices as you move the brush around using the DragDot stroke; the vertices literally look as if they are being magnified.

The magnifying (pushing out) and displacement (pushing up) effects can be controlled separately. For example, to ‘expand out’ the vertices in part of plane, without offsetting the surface, set the Magnify value to 0, and Z Intensity to a satisfactorily high value.

#2

Enable Z only :wink: ZBrush Docs>> http://docs.pixologic.com/reference-guide/transform/

#3

Thanks for the quick response! That does exactly what I need.

#4

side note. Alphas don’t work for some reason when only working in Z. It is a known bug from what I remember…but that doesn’t really mean much now-a-days.