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zbrush 4R4 polypaint problem. cannot fill with 100% RGB

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#1

I can’t fill a color on my entire object with 100% RGB if i am in recording mode in one of my layers. however if leave layer recording mode, i can fill my entire object with a color 100%, but as soon as i go back to one of my other polypaint layers into recording mode, it wipes all the changes i just did. It seems like you can only paint within inside a layer, or bake all layers afterwards then polypaint.

Another problem is after you polypaint inside a layer and you hide parts of the mesh so you can work better, all the polypaint you did somehow gets messed up until you unhide everything in your object again, it seems like a zbrush bug you can’t get around .

#2

2 Things.

  1. I would update.
  2. There is a bug I have noticed with the record function and the hitbox for it. If you leave recording while hitting the left side of the icon it will blow out your painting, if you hit record on the right side it will keep your stuff.

Eh, polypainting in layers is broken anyway, half the time it makes an object pure black others it decides you wanted massive amounts of noise when you bake your layers. I don’t trust it as far as I can throw it. I only use polypaint for base textures that I tweak in Coat and Photoshop, or for quick sketching but I never use only it for finished production work.

#3

Thanks for the reply, but i don’t know what you quite mean by pressing the left and right side of the recording mode button. Care to elaborate?

Anyways, i finally figured that if you are going to polypaint without the layers screwing with you, make sure you polypaint outside recording mode, cause once you polypaint, even a single drop inside recording mode on any layer, once you step out of recording mode, your entire polypaint will be deleted except the ones you painted inside the layer you were presently on.

#4

I think I figured it out…but I’m not sure. (totally wrong on the location of the hitbox error btw).
Fill your mesh with a color without any layers turned on.
Now you can work with layers in record mode without destroying everything else.

Granted, when you have a layer before another layer and then put that layer into record mode it forces it to the top most layer…sigh