crazy zbrush error, saves garbage mesh

[Deleted User]

I'm really really hoping someone has encountered this before and knows of a solution. I've never had this happen before. Here's a picture of what's going on:



I hit undo, and it goes back to normal, but the saved version is fubar, just like the one on the right.

HALP!?

edit: I deleted the subd history on the subtool and that saved fine. But still, does anyone know what causes this or how to avoid it? Thanks.

SpeCter

You will hit me, but somehow i like the garbage one xD

Peris

you have spiders in your zbrush!

Brice Vandemoortele

one of the coolest looking bug ^^

SpeCter

Peris wrote: »

you have spiders in your zbrush!

This was exactly what i thought :poly142:
Somewhat cool looking bug.I had this bug once but it didn´t look that cool(maybe because it was only a little stonepiece)

DarthNater

Check for extra verts or edges in max, maya, whatever you use. I've had similar things happen when I had a phantom vert. Also, if your in projection master and you undo too far (like you undo past your first projection master action) the mesh decides to go ape shit...

00Zero

sorry, no help here. but that looks pretty cool. you should use it to your advantage until you get it fixed. make some kind of slime creature

danshewan

DarthNater wrote: »

Check for extra verts or edges in max, maya, whatever you use. I've had similar things happen when I had a phantom vert.

I've had this happen a couple of times, though never as extreme or as unintentionally cool-looking as this, and it's always been due to a few errors in the base mesh.

Think of the extra effort it'd take to recreate that effect on purpose....

CheeseOnToast

At worst, you could project your current mesh onto a new, clean version. Is it FUBARed at subD 0? If not, export that out and use it as a new base mesh for the reprojection.

Laughing_Bun

are you saving it as a ztool? Ive had similar problems but that was with exporting and importing meshes. Somehow my .obj exporter became corrupted and I had to re-install stuff for it to properly export models again. This probably doesn't help you but at least I'm here for support.

Unleashed

possible your ram might be faulty, causing corrupt saves? run memtest

possible workaround for saving, export the highest res sculpt as an obj, and then load and reconstruct subdiv when you want to start again