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ZBrush's Poseable Symmetry is BROKEN!

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#1

Hi There,

ZBrush has been testing my patience with the unreliable nature of Poseable Symmetry.
I’ve got a project that absolutely needs it to work as intended - but for some reason even the simplest mesh seems to break ZBrush.

I’ve attached a simple OBJ to illustrate the problem.
The mesh is PERFECTLY symmetrical as far as I can tell - and I’ve checked in multiple programs.

Smart Resym finds 100% symmetry.
RySym finds 73% symmetry.
Poseable Symmetry finds 2.4% symmetry.

Anyone have any ideas why ZBrush cant handle this one basic thing?
Thanks.

#2

Poseable symmetry won’t work if there is more than one axis of symmetry. See my adjustment of your mesh - poseable symmetry works fine.

#3

Thanks for your response - that works, but how about this mesh?:
It only has one axis of symmetry, but poseable symmetry is a no-go.

#4

I don’t know why but ZBrush does seem to like an edgeloop in there.

#5

Yeah, it’s strange - I end up having to throw in some crazy edgeloops into my meshes just to get it to recognize that the mesh is infact symmetrical - and even then sometimes it still doesn’t work.

Unless there are any other ideas, I guess we can consider this a bug report.
Thanks for your help Marcus.