Zbrush - dynamesh slow down problem

xChris

Hey guys, I'm not sure why this has been happening to me in Zbrush 4R7, and google isn't bringing up any good results.  But when I dynamesh say to a resolution of about 1500, my active points come out to 350k, but once I start using a brush on the mesh, it'll start "subdividing geometry" into the millions and slow my machine down to the point where I can't do any brushing.

The only work around is if I mask off a tiny bit of the mesh, than it won't  subdivide, but I'm wondering if this there's some button somewhere I might have pressed that's causing this or if its a bug? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

musashidan

Make sure you haven't accidentally activated dynamic subdivision.  Hotkey D.

xChris

musashidan said:

Make sure you haven't accidentally activated dynamic subdivision.  Hotkey D.

Yeah that did it! Wasn't familiar of that feature so I wasn't to sure what I was looking for, thanks !

joshmtyler

@xChris
 THANK YOU!!!!

AwakenerOfDusk

musashidan said:

Make sure you haven't accidentally activated dynamic subdivision.  Hotkey D.

Are you the savior of man?

Butthair

This is an annoying problem with zbrush - especially for the many who use hotkeys. I also switch brushes using hotkeys and no doubt I hit the D key for some brushes.

The fact that dynamic subdiv is D... just D.. well it's problem. Shift D and Ctrl D are pretty common use hotkeys and yet D can be hit by accident (especially if an autosave decides to fire off).

This needs to be stickied or something. More importantly it's something zbrush needs to solve.

ShadowFlexy

Yep, did have it happen to me too, luckily I was working on the heavy game machine so knew it should be something else. It is out there on google, but it is not easy to find.