In Zbrush 3.5R3, Zsketch’s Smooth 2 and 3 brushes appear to be broken.
Here’s how it should work…
Smooth 1: moves and resizes the stroke.
Smooth 2: moves the stroke but does not resize.
Smooth 3: resizes the stroke but does not move.
And here’s how it currently works:
Smooth 1: moves and resizes the stroke.
Smooth 2: moves and resizes the stroke.
Smooth 3: moves and resizes the stroke.
:mad:
Is this happening for anyone else? Is this a bug?
yep just tested, and although the brush settings change to what they should be for each the brushes don’t respond correctly, nice find.
Note that it is the attached end of the strip that is affected. This is how they work for me:
marcus i just tried it again and now it works, i think my mistake was trying the ends not the starting points as you did in your example. wasn’t there a way in 3.5r2 to have the ends taper off though?
If you want to taper the unconnected end simply use the Bulge brush with Alt pressed.
I was watching the Ryan Kingslien’s “Introduction to ZSketching” tutorial. In his example, he was smoothing a zsketch stroke that was only attached at one end.
He smoothed the unattached end with smooth1, and it shrunk back towards the zsphere. I could replicate that.
Then he undid and smoothed the same end with smooth 3. This time, the unattached end stayed right where it was, and only the radius of the stroke smoothed. He did this to show how you could smooth a stroke like this without affecting its length. That’s the part I couldn’t replicate.
I thought it might have just been me, so I had a coworker try a test of his own. Same problem: smooth1 worked as intended, and smooth 2-4 all incorrectly worked just like smooth 1.
Hey SurfaceNormal, what result do you get?
One thing that could vary the results is the direction of the sketch stroke. Try the other end of the sketch stroke and see if you get the results you want. If so, then you just have to change your direction.
Cheers,
Ryan