[Zbrush] Custom UI with two monitors

C86G

Hey guys.

I want to customize my Zbrush UI so that i have some tool windows (or all) on my second monitor. For example, I want to have the geometry row and the layers and the deformations row etc on my second monitor but I can´t figure out how to do that. I know it is possible to move menus around, but I just can´t get them to the other monitor.

Has anybody done this before and can help me?

floon

As far as I know this is not possible. You are only able to stretch the ZBrush window across multiple screens and this only works somewhat good with screens of the same resolution.


I think your custom menus might be your best option. To create one go:

• Preferences>Config>Enable Customize

Now you are able to create a new menu:

• Preferences>Custom UI>Create New Menu

• Enter the name new name.

• Now a new entry with your name should have appeared in the top row

• Drag it into the left/right tray and fill it with the menu items you want e.g deformers (you can rename the menu, by ctrl+alt on the title of the menu while it is lying in a tray. By removing all letters of the name you can delete the menu again.)
  
  

Once you have all the buttons you need inside the new menu, you can exit the “Enable Customize”-mode, and need to store your config:

• Preferences>Config>Store Config

You can now assign a hotkey to the menu by ctrl+alt clicking on your new menu (while the Customize-mode is inactive), and choosing a hotkey.


Now when pressing the hotkey, the tray will popup (just like the spacebar menu).
Also don’t forget to store your newly set hotkey    (Preferences>Hotkeys>Store)

I also found it to be good practise to save the UI layout to a config file (Preferences>Config>Save UI). For me custom Menus occasionally won't load up on startup and loading your UI config is an easy fix for it.

Let me know if you are having any issues!