Polypaint issues (Zbrush)

Hammed Al-Tamimi

So, I was working in Zbrush, and began polypainting. I was having no difficulties, and continued to work. Suddenly, my entire mesh turned a flat grey color, and I was unable to see any of the detail I was working on. When I look at my subtools, I still see the polypaint details in the preview windows for each subtool. No matter what I do, including redrawing the tool in a new document, I just end up with a flat grey silhouette. I have tried to resolve this problem by messing with the light settings, render settings, and by assigning a new material to the mesh. When I load earlier versions of the mesh, it still has the detail and displays normally. Is there any way I can salvage my polypaint, or do I have to start over from a previous save version? Thanks.

cryrid

R2B?

I've been getting this occasionally since updating; it's pretty annoying. Try saving the tool (different file name), restart zbrush and load it in. I think that worked for me once.

Hammed Al-Tamimi

Yep, I just tried it. The mesh is still not showing up properly. I think I will just go ahead and work on an earlier version of it. Thanks.

Hammed Al-Tamimi

Hey, I just found a solution- I exported the polypaint as a texture, and imported the texture as a polypaint on a previous version.

jaydon

Guys i am getting this issue as well! colourize just turns flat grey and i can't paint. anyone end up finding a solution?

Átila

The way I found to fix it is closing ZBrush and opening again, choose a file from Lightbox>project>Kotelnikoff (for example) then open your project and save it, next time y reopen your project it'll be ok.