Zbrush scaling: larger increments?

inanimate

Is there a way to change the increment that the zbrush scale tool works in? As shown in the attached gif, I'm trying to make a cylinder narrower, but the scale tool works in such small increments that it can be difficult to control.

iconoplast

In the Tools panel, under Deformation, you get a bunch of sliders. One of these is size, and another is inflate (depending on what you're doing, one may work better than the other). You can also toggle which coordinates it's acting on by clicking them on the right. And remember, negative inflate = deflate. It still works in oddly spaced amounts, but you can repeat the action easily.

Justin Meisse

You can scale it a bit & then push 1 on your keyboard to repeat the scale command.

inanimate

Awesome, those are both great tips. I tried repeating with both approaches and it's a much smoother workflow.

Justin Meisse

no problem! the only thing to watch out for is 1 will repeat anything even camera moves

iconoplast

Also, don't use the inflate slider (and possibly others, but Pixologic doesn't pay me for QA so I haven't checked) if you don't have fully unmasked geometry available for it to work on. If there's only partially masked stuff it will crash everything in a fiery hail of agitated screaming.