ZBrush topology menu?

zombie420

I should preface that I'm very new to Zbrush; like 3 days into it. I'm following a lot of tutorials that are telling me about the re topology tool. It looks really cool but these tutorials (unless I'm mistaken) are also suggesting that it's a sub-menu located under the tools menu. Unfortunately, my tools menu does not include that. Where do I locate it?



And on a different note, I'd love to remove sub-menus I never use and dock menus I do use and save the whole menu layout. I know that's possible but haven't dug around for that one yet.

Internet Friend

Those topology tools only appear when you have a ZSphere selected. Either switch your tool to one or append one as a sub-tool and select it. The latter method is needed if you are retopoing across multiple subtools. Alternatively use the newer Topology Brush or QRemesher. ZSphere retopo is pretty lame compared to any other package's retopo tools.

cryrid

I'm guessing he wont have the newer tools based on the lack of Fibermesh in the palette.

D4V1DC

Try using any object here I used a cylinder.
Unified skin, make unified skin and I had the options after that.
This is just a custom ui in zbrush everything is the same, I wanted to link to the author but I forgot who it was. (bad memory)

Twister3

I think he uses the old way of retopologizing with zspheres.
The way this works is you append a new zsphere subtool and scroll down to find the "topology" tab in the tool menu. Then click "edit topology". Here is a video of the process: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSGP1f_z1m0"]Zbrush retopology tutorial - YouTube[/ame]