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#1

Often when I’m using masks zbrush will crash. It seems to happen mostly on one particular ztool.

Im using an AMD 4600+ Dual core system with 4 gigs of ram and an ATI Radeon X1600.

This happens in my windows xp x86 install, and I tried installing windows 7 x64 in which zbrush is more stable. However it still happens from time to time.

Let me know if theres any more specs I should provide.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Is the base mesh from outside zbrush? I have found that if you delete your first sub division (save a new save first of course) and then reconstruct it (save a new save). It works fine for me that way, I make my base meshes mostly in modo now. I had that problem for a while. but not anymore.

#3

Yea I made the base mesh in 3dsmax. I don’t quite follow the workflow…

Do you mean, import my base mesh, subdivide it once, then delete the lower? then save it out? then sculpt into that?

thanks for the help :slight_smile:

#4

i’ve had this happen, only when i have part of the mesh hidden and i’m using transpose masking, not normal painting or dragrec/lasso masking.

#5

Kiamo

spaceboy412 gave me this procedure to fix issues with imported meshes.
(I think it came from marcus civis originally) I now do this every time I
import an OBJ.

  1. Turn off Tool:Geometry:Smt and then press Tool:Geometry: Divide once.

  2. Press Tool:Geometry: Del Lower.

  3. Press Tool:Texture:Enable UV (if not enabled already) and then press
    Tool:Geometry:Reconstruct Subdiv.

  4. At the lower subdiv level press Tool:Geometry: Del Higher. As any polygroups will have been lost you may wish to press Tool:Polygroups:Group Visible.

At this point you should be back to your original mesh. These steps seem
to preserve imported UVs OK, and it seems to avoid some problems with
edge-looping and creasing, maybe also the mask crash?

G.