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Zsphere causing file to crash

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#1

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a model for school over the last few months and I have been running into a problem this week. On the bottom of my subtool list, there is a Zsphere_1 that is listed. When I click on it to select it, it causes Zbrush to crash everytime. I’m not able to delete it either, though it does allow me to click on the eye icon. When I go into the transpose master tool, and click on transpose master, Zbrush is also crashing on me. When I looked at the subtools after I pressed tposeMesh, when it gets down to that Zsphere, is when it crashes. I think the crashing for tpose master is from the Zsphere. Has anyone had a problem similar to this in Zbrush? Is there a way to delete any hidden subtools? I’ve also tried creating a new Zsphere, having it on top of Zsphere_1 in the subtool palette, and clicking the merge down button, that too makes the file crash. I have been saving multiple file versions of this project, but it looks like that this happened somewhere in the beginning, I’m thinking when I was retopologizing one of my objects with a Zsphere.

The only other thing I can think of is with each subtool selected, use the delete other button, to where the only subtool left is the one selected, than save it, than do that for each subtool. Is there a way to import a zbrush scene into another like you can in Maya? If I did that, than I could get rid of that zsphere. Interestingly enough that Zsphere has no image for it in the subtool, and doesn’t shgow up anywhere in the scene, as if it doesn’t exist. I’m using Zbrush 4r5.

#2

I’ve no idea what is causing this but you might like to try this zscript which I hope will solve the issue.

It works by re-ordering the subtools, which should put the ZSphere at the bottom. Then it appends each one except the last (hopefully ZSphere) to a new ztool.

To use:

  1. Unzip the zip file to your Desktop.
  2. Copy the DeleteZSphere.ZSC file to your ZBrush 4R5/ZScripts folder.
  3. Start ZBrush and load the problem model.
  4. From the Load button in the ZScript palette, select the DeleteZSphere.zsc file.
  5. When loading a zscript in this way the button will appear at the bottom of the UI in what’s called the Tutorial window. Press H on the keyboard to show the window. You might need to click+drag in the space up or down to show the button. It will be called “CloneAllButOne”.
  6. Press the button.

When it’s finished - and if there’s not been a crash - the new ZTL without the dodgy ZSphere should be the selected ztool. Save it from the Tool palette as a ZTL, then load it into a clean project.

Download here:

HTH,

#3

Thank you for this Marcus. I ended up just cloning one of my subtools into a new subtool palette, and appending each one, and did a delete other on the original subtool and was able to delete it, but I have 77 different pieces, so it took about 20 minutes. I’m going to try using the Zscript on the older file with that Zsphere error and see if it works.