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#661

When I first got involved with ZBrush-- I was totally ignorant on the subject of topology and retopology. Even the words were foreign to me. (Coming from painting background and then the 2D world of After Effects/Photoshop and Illustrator). I started in ZBrush by taking a slew of courses with Ryan Kingslien/Uartsy, which at the time was ZBrush Workshops (best art-decision I ever made). This was before QRemesher was even hinted at, back then I remember Ryan saying something like if there isn’t a solution within 10 years, he will be out of the business. :wink: Retopologizing a figure, a face, a jacket, etc. was something I never wanted to become engaged with.

Well, not being an animator, with no need to pass along my object in a pipeline, I find the latest ZRemesher an amazing advancement. Combined with Dynamesh, I sometimes need to pause from my workflow and just marvel at how great the polys are that this now produces. I stop and spin around my results frequently before I continue. I, for one, thank you Pixologic!

#662

^ hear hear!

#663

Retopologizing a figure, a face, a jacket, etc. was something I never wanted to become engaged with.

Retopology is not stimulating, although some articles I’ve read insist that it is an essential step.

I find the latest ZRemesher an amazing advancement. Combined with Dynamesh, I sometimes need to pause from my workflow and just marvel at how great the polys are that this now produces.

Yes, it is fabulous! That’s why I’m psyched about the upcoming update. :slight_smile: Can’t wait to see what’s coming.

The only thing I’m seeing now, that’s not almost totally accurate, is “joins.” If I join a cylinder shape to a cube shape, for instance, the rings around the “join” will be a bit lopsided. Larger on the bottom than the top, maybe. But I haven’t been using dynamesh lately, when experimenting with the ZModeler. Dynamesh might even out the poly size.

I, for one, thank you Pixologic!

Lordy, yes. Thanks for everything! 4R7 is a total joy. :+1: Love it.

#664

Just wanted to put this here incase anyone over at Pixologic is looking. LOVE the 64 bit beta. It is wildly unstable tho. And, after using it for a while, I’ve noticed a pattern of it crashing after leaving zBrush to attend to another application. Even if it’s just for a few minutes. And if I leave the computer for 20 minutes or more and come back, it almost always crashes. Aside from this, it’s a beast. And I absolutely love working in it.

Relevant info: I’m using an iMac Retina 5K, 4GH i7 with 32gb of Ram. AMD Radeon R9 graphics card. up to date OSx.

Moderator’s Reply: This is not the location for this. Please post in the Other Questions & Troubleshooting forums. Thanks.

#665

And I see that Patch 3 is here. :+1:

Pixo servers – get ready for a new avalanche of visitors. :wink:

Thank you, Pixologic!

#666

Avalanche indeed!

The enthusiasm is wonderful!

#667

Uh huh – and this time, Jan is prudently waiting. :wink:

Even though the enthusiasm is surely there!

#668

Welp, I guess the server has been overloaded again. I’ll just wait for a day or so then…

#669

It’s up now, Wolfman. :slight_smile:

I do love a good update. :cool:

Thanks again, Pixologic! You know ZB is now habit-forming, right?

#670

Thanks very much for the update. :smiley:

#671

Awesome to see the new Zbrush out!
I love the Zmodeler feature and many others.
Now that we have Zmodeler all we need it’s a *snap to other subtools" feature (magnet) and boom you got a super powerful retopologizing tool, better , faster than the zspheres one.

#672

OvidiusTiberius I totally agree! If we could have snap option for the zmodeler then we will have a super powered tool for retopology.
I’m sure the guys at pixologic are thinking about that too. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait for V5 to see it implemented… 4r7 p4? Maybe.

#673

Now that 64bit can handle higher subd, anybody know if you can convert old HD geometry models into “regular” geometry level models?

#674

How would you do that? BPR to Geo – no button w/HD that I can find.

Project All, maybe?

That’s an interesting question.

#675

Will the developers add new ZModeler tools in next extensions? I still can’t move from Maya to ZBrush until there are no traditional cut tool, connections, no complete loop slice(for polygroup edges only, without hiding polygons) and other tools which allow you to control the topology(edge drawing) of base mesh.
I think developers need to think not only about fast extrusions and fast edge loops but also about low-level control of topology for real handy base mesh modeling.

#676

I would imagine we’ll see all that and more, with future releases of ZBrush. :slight_smile:

Pixologic does not disappoint. :wink:

#677

Did anyone ever find a fix for the problem the person below posted about a couple months back? Both my 32 and 64 versions started doing this 2 weeks ago and now any button I click starts blinking and I’m forced to force quit the program. Basically I’m dead in the water on using zbrush now.

The original person who posted about this:

hi friends, i have a little problem and maybe someone else is experiencing it:

my Load and Import buttons are not working, yes(o: , both 32 and 64 bit
Load Tool, Import model, import texture even import ui colors,
when i click i can choose the obj, ma, jpg whatever and then import buttons starts flashing black and white forever eventually i need to close zbrush. I tried with all kind of objects and textures, heavy, light, obj, ma,jpg

I know you are all extruding shamelessly now (o: but any ideas?
Thanks

#678

I hesitate to give anyone advice, but – have you thought about trying an uninstall/reinstall of ZB?

If all else fails… :slight_smile:

#679

Hi, everybody. Sent me the worker of ztl. the file of model, and at me gives out here such mistake: 1.png
However I tried 2 latests versions of ZBrush, 4R6 and 4R7, tried to open the ztl. file in both, the screen is applied and saying to me that the has been created by a newer ZBrush version…

Help, please, maybe there should be installed some patches or in what there can be a problem?

Thank you everyone.

You need to update to Patch 3. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?192994-ZBrush-4R7-P3-is-Now-Available&p=1134754&viewfull=1#post1134754

Also, this kind of thing should be posted in the Questions & Troubleshooting forum or via a Support ticket.

Thanks!

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#680

I am using ZBrush 4R7 64 bit and I can’t seem to increase the memory limit beyond 80 million polys. How can I fix this? :confused: I have 32GB of ram.

Thanks! :smiley: