Problems with ZBrush Mirror Tool

pangarang

Hey all,

Wondering if anyone could help me solve this mystery. I'm sculpting in ZBrush with X axis mirroring on. But my strokes aren't always being mirrored accurately on the opposite side. The problem area seems to be the inner eye. When my strokes cross that area, it's as if mirroring is turned off. Please see attached image.

I've never encountered this issue before. Can anyone tell me what's going on?

pangarang

Also experiencing a variant of the issue. In the case where the mirrored strokes work, they are shallower than the manual strokes. See attached image.

Tripl3M

Have you tried sculping with local symmetry on ?

pangarang

Tripl3M wrote: »

Have you tried sculping with local symmetry on ?

I have, and it doesn't seem to fix anything. The attached image was conducted with local symmetry turned on. Not sure how to check if the model is centered in world space - maybe that has something to do with it?

peanut™

You need to smart-resim the mesh once in a while for symmetry to work equaly from time to time. I don't have zbrush in front of me right now.

So it goes something like this Deformation --> Smart-resim x, y, or z

DavePhipps

When I had this happen I did a mirror/weld and it fixed it. It turned out my model was not a symmetrical as I had thought.
Try an experiment. Load another mesh and see if the problem persists in other files.

pangarang

Thanks for helping me out with this problem, everyone! I tried peanut's suggestion, which solved the problem. Many thanks again to all.