Hi everyone! I have the same problem as shogunato had some posts above. The problem is empty space. I've removed unused elements from bottom and right shelves, but the shelves are still there (see the screenshot). How can I hide/delete them? Tab hotkey hide all sheleves. It's not what I need. I want my viewport to be as maximum size as it could be. And I don't need the empty space from unused shelves. I very like the first UI in this thread: there no empty space at all Can anybody help me with this problem? Thanks.
It kind of looks like there is the top portion of a button hiding towards the button-right (left of the word Remesh), which could explain the bottom and right gap.
I'm left handed, and it's a pain in the ass to work with keyboard shortcuts, so I used to have buttons from various pannels cluttered on the ui. Now I found it much faster to use custom menus, I have 2 of them set on the pen buttons. This way I dont have to swing with my hand too much, it's much more ergonomic.
Cryrid, thank you! It was that button. Problem solved.
But I still have some questions. First: can I move/hide notebar (it's
the part of title bar, upper red rectangle) or I can't? And the second one: every time I
launch zBrush I need to push "Menus" botton to hide menus and load my custom floor
grid. Can I setup it automatically? Thanks.
I'm one of those lefties also. Totally sympathise with you mate. I use a Cintiq 22HD with a game pad. On this one the Ctrl, Shift and Alt are nicely placed to control with your right thumb or forefinger and spacebar with your right hand little finger. Oh and very easy to jump between the Q,W,E. In addition I create custom menus and map to the numbers and remap all the other keys to most used tools.
Not sure if they still produce this one, but just a thought for other left handed bods
So I've been tinkering with my ZBrush UI, never really bothered to customize it but I finally did and it's awesome, I love how flexible everything is. Anyone else uses a custom UI? I'd love to see how workflow changed the UI for you guys.
I change mine around a lot. Even now I'm thinking of making a few more changes. Here's two I've stuck with more often.
What's the process of adding in custom png's like this color swatch? I tried loading in your script but it wasn't working. User error I'm sure. Figured I'd just try making my own.
Did you have the CryridUI plugin folder (that contains those psd images) in your \zstartup\zplugs\ directory prior to running the script? It's been a few years but I think that was the process, unless they changed something in recent versions.
If you're adding your own images, you should be able to do something similar. The folder is just a bunch of images, the script creates blank buttons which use them. Once run it will create a palette in zbrush which stores those buttons, which you can then place around while customizing the ui.
Oh ok I got your script to load and looks fantastic! I just needed to put the script in the same folder as the psd's. I had the script in the separate ZScript folder when it needed to be in the ZStartup/ZPlugs
I'll probably give me a go at making some button images now Thank you Mike!
Hey guys, is this thread still a thing? I recently got a surface pro and have been trying to figure out a way to get a UI button as a replacement for holding down Shift and Alt. I'm able to zoom and rotate and stuff but I'm not able to lock my camera rotation. Oh and I can't smooth without changing brushes, womp.
Any ideas would be great. I know there are a few tools that just run in windows, but I'd really rather have it actually in zbrush.
Hey guys, is this thread still a thing? I recently got a surface pro and have been trying to figure out a way to get a UI button as a replacement for holding down Shift and Alt. I'm able to zoom and rotate and stuff but I'm not able to lock my camera rotation. Oh and I can't smooth without changing brushes, womp.
Any ideas would be great. I know there are a few tools that just run in windows, but I'd really rather have it actually in zbrush.
Thanks!
the best tool for the surface pro i found is called "radial menu" it also lets you remap the buttons on the pen
did anyone have success in building a custom menu that contains subtool and layer palettes? i can drag-copy the items from within the tool menu as usual but neither of these palettes turns out functional in the end result (slots are not populating properly with newly created subtools and layers).
lastly, is there a way to reorder existing palettes within a custom menu? ctrl+alt+LMB gives me the rename dialog, no way to drag them after they have been created.
@thomasp - It's reallllly silly - but to move sub palettes they have to be empty - so if they are empty the rename dialog will not appear and you can move them - Idk if there's any other way.
Also can't move certain things like subtool and layers and curve items in the ui.
thanks, that looks like i managed to stumble across ALL the issues within just 5 minutes of playing with it. i encountered the palette move when empty and took it for a bug. i should ditch this wacom pen and start working in QA... :*
well it does sound intriguing but what i'm really after is a clean subtool + layer palette without the plethora of buttons surrounding those.
btw. does R8 now have a way to permanently shut up those dialog boxes that pop up when you try to delete subtools or switch to simple brush? i'm sure there were others as well that you can only disable for the current session.
It kind of looks like there is the top portion of a button hiding towards the button-right (left of the word Remesh), which could explain the bottom and right gap.
@cryrid - I'm having a similar issue as @Fomen - when I go to customize my UI to remove buttons (for the express purpose of allowing the shelves to collapse) the buttons I'm trying to remove become hidden when the interface "pops" into customize mode - any idea how to correct this so I can remove the buttons that are keeping my shelves from collapsing to maximize the canvas area?
The four buttons circled in blue in the first image are the problem children.
BTW I'm on an ASUS 15.6" laptop with an NVidia GTX 1070 gfx card working at 1920 x 1080 screen resolution, which is the max for the model I own.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Step1: This is how my UI looks BEFORE I go to Preferences > Config > Enable Customize
Step2: This is how it looks AFTER I go to Preferences > Config > Enable Customize (circled buttons become hidden?)
I'm not a fan of the fact that it's still virtually impossible to edit existing multi-mesh brushes, and now also the multi-alpha brushes.
If you want to change something, you basically have to make the whole thing over again.
I made some multi-alpha brushes, for example, that now have much larger file sizes than they need to, because in spite of the name "alpha" apparently they store all of the original geometry data and I did not decimate them.
I made a little script i gonna publish soon that convert multi alpha brushes into a Ztool with multiple Subtools. That could help to rebuild a multi alpha brush, but i wanted it to work with Insert meshes brush, and it's impossible Well the free plugin script is named zCycler, as it also a brush cycler plugin that works with R7 , R8 and PC and Mac.
I'm not a fan of the fact that it's still virtually impossible to edit existing multi-mesh brushes, and now also the multi-alpha brushes.
If you want to change something, you basically have to make the whole thing over again.
I made some multi-alpha brushes, for example, that now have much larger file sizes than they need to, because in spite of the name "alpha" apparently they store all of the original geometry data and I did not decimate them.
I made a little script i gonna publish soon that convert multi alpha brushes into a Ztool with multiple Subtools. That could help to rebuild a multi alpha brush, but i wanted it to work with Insert meshes brush, and it's impossible Well the free plugin script is named zCycler, as it also a brush cycler plugin that works with R7 , R8 and PC and Mac.
Customization of Zbrush a good way to improve work flow.
With the buttons and sliders quickly available for use!
You can also customize the UI color scheme.
Here is mine for zbrush 4r8.
realizing it will never be perfect so you can DL the in progress - maybe it will give you some ideas! Popups and embedded menus and macros are great try them out.
Love this color combo. how do you get the menu to popup in the middle?
I'm not a fan of the fact that it's still virtually impossible to edit existing multi-mesh brushes, and now also the multi-alpha brushes.
If you want to change something, you basically have to make the whole thing over again.
I made some multi-alpha brushes, for example, that now have much larger file sizes than they need to, because in spite of the name "alpha" apparently they store all of the original geometry data and I did not decimate them.
I made a little script i gonna publish soon that convert multi alpha brushes into a Ztool with multiple Subtools. That could help to rebuild a multi alpha brush, but i wanted it to work with Insert meshes brush, and it's impossible Well the free plugin script is named zCycler, as it also a brush cycler plugin that works with R7 , R8 and PC and Mac.
Playing around with all the fancy 4R8 stuff. Loving the alpha and boolean options, especially. Like to keep my UI pretty clean, but I do have a lot of different brushes I like to switch between (some are downloaded).
I typically use Zbrush for organic sculpting, but really trying to get
into more of the hard-surface options and get away from traditional box
modeling.
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http://www.pedramk.com/files/JohnnyRaptor-UI.cfg
Zbrush Colors:
SAF_UI_Colors_1.cfg
I very like the first UI in this thread: there no empty space at all
Can anybody help me with this problem? Thanks.
I'm one of those lefties also. Totally sympathise with you mate. I use a Cintiq 22HD with a game pad. On this one the Ctrl, Shift and Alt are nicely placed to control with your right thumb or forefinger and spacebar with your right hand little finger. Oh and very easy to jump between the Q,W,E. In addition I create custom menus and map to the numbers and remap all the other keys to most used tools.
Not sure if they still produce this one, but just a thought for other left handed bods
Regards
What's the process of adding in custom png's like this color swatch? I tried loading in your script but it wasn't working. User error I'm sure. Figured I'd just try making my own.
If you're adding your own images, you should be able to do something similar. The folder is just a bunch of images, the script creates blank buttons which use them. Once run it will create a palette in zbrush which stores those buttons, which you can then place around while customizing the ui.
I'll probably give me a go at making some button images now
I recently got a surface pro and have been trying to figure out a way to get a UI button as a replacement for holding down Shift and Alt. I'm able to zoom and rotate and stuff but I'm not able to lock my camera rotation. Oh and I can't smooth without changing brushes, womp.
Any ideas would be great. I know there are a few tools that just run in windows, but I'd really rather have it actually in zbrush.
Thanks!
What is wrong with you? Let him sell whatever he wants, you don't have to buy anything.
It's highly doubtful that it would sell anyways, so Whatevs
lastly, is there a way to reorder existing palettes within a custom menu? ctrl+alt+LMB gives me the rename dialog, no way to drag them after they have been created.
custom interface attempt aborted it is then!
btw. does R8 now have a way to permanently shut up those dialog boxes that pop up when you try to delete subtools or switch to simple brush? i'm sure there were others as well that you can only disable for the current session.
The four buttons circled in blue in the first image are the problem children.
BTW I'm on an ASUS 15.6" laptop with an NVidia GTX 1070 gfx card working at 1920 x 1080 screen resolution, which is the max for the model I own.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
Step1: This is how my UI looks BEFORE I go to Preferences > Config > Enable Customize
Step2: This is how it looks AFTER I go to Preferences > Config > Enable Customize (circled buttons become hidden?)
That could help to rebuild a multi alpha brush, but i wanted it to work with Insert meshes brush, and it's impossible
Well the free plugin script is named zCycler, as it also a brush cycler plugin that works with R7 , R8 and PC and Mac.
https://gum.co/zcycler
With the buttons and sliders quickly available for use!
You can also customize the UI color scheme.
Here is mine for zbrush 4r8.
I typically use Zbrush for organic sculpting, but really trying to get into more of the hard-surface options and get away from traditional box modeling.