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Zbrush r7 & 64 bit locks while sculpting

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#1

So I’m having this weird issue, its happened to me multiple times with different projects. As I’m sculpting, zooming out-in,panning, and rotating I use hotkeys very frequently. Whether its spacebar for the default panel or my own hotkeys like A for custom brushes panel or S for a panel of common operations, Zbrush r7 both 32 bit and 64 bit make the ui lock. It doesn’t crash because I tend to see that if I move my mouse or stylus over anything it seems like its trying to continue an operation depending on what I hover over, but does nothing.
The current screenshot shows at the current state that it locks in. Some combination of me using spacebar for the default panel and sculpting, and rotating,scaling,panning, is causing Zbrush to lock.
The way around it is to kill Zbrush and restart, but this seems like a hassle and annoying.
Another thing that has happened to me a few times is that instead of locking, it tries to redraw the model to the canvas as it edit mode was turned off.

Has anybody encountered anything like this? Or a possible workaround.
Also a quick note, while zbrush remains locked, it creates hundreds of file sizes in this location
C:\Users\Public\Documents\ZBrushData\VMemEKMHGKG\6000Filembaaaaaa.mem

Once I kill zbrush, this folder dissapears.

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#2

Another thing that has happened to me a few times is that instead of locking, it tries to redraw the model to the canvas as it edit mode was turned off.

Shift S creates the snapshot thing you see dumped onto the canvas, there was also a nasty bug a while back that caused that to happen constantly but that was fixed… I think…

#3

Menu locking on screen is indeed very annoying… i just came over to see if anyone else hast this issue, im surprised it hasnt been patched yet

PS.
Was there a PC patch released already?

#4

Actually it happened just now again…

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#5

Hi Pete, looks like its something just with R7. I remember something similar like this would happen when I used R5 but if I remember correctly it wasn’t as bad. I know R6 never had that issue so I assumed it was fixed. Now with R7 its much worse and annoying and I basically have to wait for Autosave to kick in so it at least save my file and then kill zbrush. Another thing to note is that if the UI doesn’t lock, certain brushes that I have in a hotkeyed panel stop working properly.
I’m wondering if its because the Document size it set to Double. I always set my Doc size to double when I open my ztl. I’m going to work on the default half size to see if anything happens.
If anyone else has had this issue, it would be good to note it here, perhaps it will be fixed by Pixologic!

#6

I’m not sure whether its due to the document size but in my case i have size default but locked to the screen size… yes it just happened again (5th time today)

#7

Anybody else encountered this issue of Zbrush ui locking out? It happened to me again.

#8

It has had ‘issues’ here. Sometimes functions stop working too. But the developers need to have steps to reproduce the ‘problem’ in order to address it and hopefully provide a solution.

#9

We are currently working on a patch that will fix this issue. It should be available very soon. Until then, the work around is simply to use the regular UI elements rather than the Quick Menu.

#10

You can’t always recreate steps if problem really randomly occurs, you can mash spacebar for 20 times adjusting your brush by 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 and it won’t freeze, other time you do exactly same thing and it just stays there… it’s random

But it’s good to hear that problem is already being adressed, I’m waiting impatiently for a patch :slight_smile:

#11

Thank you very much for the attention aurick!