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Why can't I edit my object anymore?

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#55

if im saying this correctly. when you start modelling you get a step by step view of your model inside the tool section so if you mess something up or decide to change it to unified or adaptive skinning create a polymesh it becomes available inside the tools palette you just select it then redraw back on the screen then click EDIT to continue modelling, Also its exactly the same as when you save your work say you close zbrush an reopen you are shown the empty document load up your .ztl of your zsphere`s or whatever you made an you need to redraw the model back on screen with the tool you saved to re-model…

im still pretty new to zbrush but have watched loads of tutorials so i hope ive helped you there.

also want to add to this… when in zsphere mode still an you open the tool you saved as zspheres you can still toggle the preview mesh with A an add more zspheres to your model.

#56

Hi to all experts,

can any one help me, I can not moove separatly ono masch from the other in subtool menu.

Thx

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#57

Press Move on the shelf along the top.
Click on the eye and draw out a Transpose line to the right
Click on the white center dot to move the eye

Learn more about Transpose here.

ryan

#58

Okay so I started my first model in zbrush and I got to a point that I want to save so I didn’t lose anything only I saved it as a document.

So now I open the document and the model is there in pixols but when I try all the tricks to convert it back nothing works. Can someone help me? I have no idea what I’m doing and I’m kind of dumb tonight so please explain it as simple as possible lol…

Edit: I uploaded the file if that helps to show where I’m going wrong. Sorry about it being a zip of a rar file I was having trouble with the size requirements when it was just a zip file.

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#59

Rebourne, have you saved your model as tool or you have saved the document??? I have saved my models so many times, but as tool, and every time when I continue working, everything is there where I have stopped.

#60

Rebourne, I have just tryed to open your alien head… I think you will have to start all over again, you see, the only way to save your models is to save them as tools, and when starting again on new document, load that saved tool…

maybe there is some way in ZB3 to convert your pixel model in to OBJ, but I do not know it

#61

Saving a document does not save your model. What it does is save a 2.5D snapshot of the canvas. It is no longer editable. To save a model so that it can be edited again in a future session, you need to use Tool>Save As.

There’s no way to turn a 2.5D document back into a 3D model. Everything that’s not visible to the camera quite literally no longer exists.

#62

Haha, I was afraid of that.

Well I won’t be making that mistake twice LOL.

Thanks for the speedy answers Aurick and Coyotes :).

#63

HI i just got zbrush 3 so i am not really familiar with some concepts for example i wanted to make a head, so i started by creating a zspheare then i entered to editing mode (t) once i´m there i want to move some areas of the spheare to give it a head shape so i press w but when i want to move it, it just gives the transpose lines, how can i just move the sphere without those lines?

#64

I quite carefully saved my model, which I’m building with ZSpheres, as a Tool, not as a document. I can load it, and initially it seems I can edit it. But once I place a new zSphere, I no longer seem to have access to my model. I can’t edit, or draw new zSpheres on it. Instead, I seem only be able to create new instances of it.

Saving and reloading a model is very important to me because this program has already crashed twice in half an hour.

What am I doing wrong?

#65

Well Grotius if you want to add new mesh, obj, tool to your existing one, you have to go to subtool and only there you will be able to do what you want. But only objects that you can add to you existing model are tool objects.

#66

Grotius, make sure you’re in Transform: edit: draw mode when adding new zspheres to your root zsphere.

Otherwise, you’ll be adding brand new root zspheres to your canvas each time and you won’t be able to edit the old ones.

#67

Thanks. I thought I was still in Edit mode, but perhaps not. I seem to have it working now.

#68

I need help please
i am new in zbrush and 3d sclptin word
there is some thing that i am trying to do in zbrush and i cant
i want to know if it is posible to use the brush where are the 3d tools to modefy or scuplt a 3d objest or we can just use the normale brosh ( inflat magnify, flaten ext…)
thank you
sorry cuase my english es bad if the quetion is not clear enogth i will try to make with an other way

#69

To sculpt 3D objects, use the brushes found in the Brush palette. Don’t use the stuff found in the Tool palette, since most of those are 2.5D (pixol-based).

#70

Brush Palette? When in 3D edit mode all I can use to sculpt is a round tool, and adjust the size in the Draw menu, this method is quite general.
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And if I use a simplebrush and go into the 2.5D view, I can’t go back and change the angle at which I’m view the object, even if I take a snap shot or save the object. Then it just lets me rotate the brush work I just did, as a separate object.

I’m using version 2.03 in Leopard.

#71

I created a sculpture and didn’t compete it, but saved it as a .ZBR to edit it later. now when i load it i cannot do anything to it except paint i still needed to add more clay and sculpt it please help!!

#72

Zbrush saves different elements in different places. If you save a document, it won’t save the tool (which is what you mean by your sculpture). To save that tool, goto the tool menu, and Save As…

#73

i cannot see my “tool” or sculpture in the tool menu all i have is the basic tools.

#74

sicrage, please actually read the thread. It clearly explains that Document>Save As will not work if you need to continue editing the model later. You need Tool>Save As.

I also recommend that you visit www.pixologic.com/zclassroom and www.pixologic.com/docs