Is there a way to set brush size relative to mesh in Zbrush?

Millah · Mar 2011

Mudbox appears to function in this way. It's usefull for certain things. Is there a way to do it in Zbrush that anyone knows?

SpeCter · Mar 2011

Isn´t it actually the other way around?
I always have to make sure the scale of my object is correct in mudbox otherwise the brushes go crazy like shit o.O

Millah · Mar 2011

hmm... maybe I should clarify.

In zbrush when you zoom in and out of your mesh your brush stays the same size in the viewport. This makes it easy to have inconsistency when sculpting details if you zoom in/out at all.

In mudbox when you zoom in and out of your mesh your brush scales with the zoom so that it's the same size on the mesh no matter how zoomed in or out you are. This is happy times for sculpting details like seams.

I'm guessing by the single reply that it's just one of those differences, like mudboxes viewport handling. Bummer.

BeatKitano · Mar 2011

Search on the zscript forum, I think there was something like that at some point in time...

Stinger88 · Mar 2011

Apparently the adjust plugin stores the brush size relative to the model. Havent tried it yet but I will do as I think this will be very useful also.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=45611

Knudsen · Oct 2014

Thought i'd pitch in on this as searching for a solution to this problem led me here. Maybe it will help others too.

in 4r6 (not sure how far back) you can click the "dynamic" word that is next to your draw size. This toggles the scaling behavior of your brush size:

Is there a way to set brush size relative to mesh in Zbrush?

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