ZBrush Spotlight seems to be blocking all brushstrokes

Steve Schulze · Jan 2014

I'm using Zbrush 4r6. When I load up an image in Spotlight on the workspace then turn off the spotlight menu to go back to sculpting, I'm not able to sculpt or paint on my model. As soon as I disable spotlight, I'm able to manipulate the model as normal.

It's been a while since I've used spotlight, possibly not since the last ZBrush version update, but I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything differently. Has functionality changed?

myclay · Jan 2014

Hi, one thing could be to press RGB which is near the Zadd and Zsub in the top

to brush you would normally have to go to
Brush ->Samples and uncheck Spotlight Projection
hopefully this helps.

jacob thomas · Jan 2014

Yeah so you have the image visible on Spotlight just not active and can't sculpt?
Same thing happens here, I thought this is how it always had been.
@Myclay was spot on the money though. If you do the Brush ->Samples and uncheck Spotlight Projection it will work as per usual.
Thanks for the heads up.

nlsinh · Mar 2015

myclay wrote: »

Hi, one thing could be to press RGB which is near the Zadd and Zsub in the top

to brush you would normally have to go to
Brush ->Samples and uncheck Spotlight Projection
hopefully this helps.

You're my king! Thanks so much!

pixeldamage · Feb 2016

Yeah I guess the issue is that Spotlight wasn't designed to be used as Ref (I guess that's what we're why we're having this problem). Nice workaround though MyClay

abhishek_sain · Feb 2020

myclay said:

Hi, one thing could be to press RGB which is near the Zadd and Zsub in the top

to brush you would normally have to go to
Brush ->Samples and uncheck Spotlight Projection
hopefully this helps.

Thanks man. Your solution helped me to.

ZBrush Spotlight seems to be blocking all brushstrokes

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