I put off upgrading to 4R7 for a while foreseeing I’d get squished and trampled in the floodgates, (and I was not in a hurry, so I thought - let everyone else have it before me like innit)
Whilst waiting, and perusing the new features, I was listening to “Promise Me” by “Beverly Craven” on ewtube looping over and over for an hour or two on the first hours of 4R7 release day, (I know its weird) but after a while I envisioned thousands of ZBrushers the world over staring at their monitors, open mouthed, quivering lower lip, a single tear bursts forth, rolling down cheek on some of them, knackered from all the quick-fire F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 multi tapping…It was a fitting soundtrack.
A couple of days’ curiosity just got the better of me and I succumb.
Everything went fine:-
(1) De-Activate R6, (2) Uninstall R6, (3) delete residuals (files/folders), (4) Download R7, (5) install R7, (6)Activate R7, (7)Pray.
…Message saying:-
“4R7 has already been de-activated on this machine, would you like to Re-Activate?”…
…Yes…Yes please, with chocolate matcaps on top.
BEHOLD…4R7.
I noticed the new tick box questions on activation screen, I ticked nearly every box, including Dentist.
I’m not a dentist, but not so long ago I was telling my dentist about ZBrush and how brilliant it is, and how I will one day get my choppers scanned, open them up (myself of course, I couldn’t trust a dentist to do it) in Zbrush, augment a little bit here and there, (replace a missing tooth, slight fangs…only a little bit of fang, not too much)
Print them out in some high density material like Titanium/Steel etc. Whichever one that will not rust.
et voila…nigh-on indestructible imperishable Titanium toosie pegs drilled and screwed into my skull and mandible, nice.
Thats all in preparation for later in life when I start loosing lots of teeth, or if I know a good job will be done of the alignment, drilling and screwing, rip em out now and get it over with…if I could afford it that is.
Sorry to digress, its just if my dentist gets Zbrush, I told him about it OK. And if I were a dentist, I’d already have it.
Uh, yeah, so anyway…
Fair do’s to the Pixologician’s, I bet they are on some unsponsored stay awake substance, fire extinguishers in hand in case of smoking servers bursting into flames or spontaneous combustion due to the Zb-Rush thats (naturally) occurring right now.
btw. Feeling lots of empathy for everyone whos in Z-Limbo at the moment. I really am.
I smell an opportunistic early “surprise” birthday present in the form of ZBridge and Zeyshot coming soon, but iL leave it a week or three, let Pixologic get back to normal.
Going for a soak in the bath now, where I will play and fantasize in the playground area of my mind-palace (yes Sherlock I got one too) about all the doable impossibilities that will be possible with ZB4R7.
ZBrush 4R7 - making fantasy a reality.
ZBrush 5 - All your fantasy are belong to us.
Thank you Pixologic, Love you, and your software.
mark.