Are you dragging the main material thumbnail that happens to have another material displayed, or the smaller library you see when you expand the material subpalette? And are the custom materials being put in the zstartup directory? The other materials folder is for lightbox.
Thanks Cryrid. That was the problem I think. I just copied all the custom materials into both the Materials folder and the Zstartup Materials folder. Seems to work ok now.
Im having a problem keeping custom materials on the UI. I ctrl_alt drag custom materials (which I've copied to the Materials folder) to the UI, save UI, store config. I close zbrush and reopen, but where the custom material sat on my UI, it's now MatCap Red. How do you guys get custom materials to stay there on your UI?
Zstartup is where you want to put anything (materials, brushes, ui layouts/colors, etc) that you wish to be loaded automatically, otherwise you'll have to dig them out manually.
Danny Williams aka pointpusher has released his R4 user interface for download, including materials, scripts and whatnot. Looks interesting! http://pointpusher.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/zbrush-4r4-prefs.html
Hmm, that's smart. It does use 3rd party brushes like the Selwy Cloth Brushes, Orb's crack brush and the Mahcut Hard Surface brushes, as well as materials that I found around the web and don't even know if they're free anymore. Would that be a problem?
Sure, I'll be glad to help, I'll upload it when I get home. But as it's been said, it uses some non default brushes and materials and it'll look broken if they're not in the right folders, but from that image you can tell where stuff is supposed to be or just fill in the gaps with other stuff.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5691557/ZStartup.zip As cryrid suggested, just extract this zip file into the ZBrush instalation folder and merge/overwrite as wanted. It includes materials and brushes, the UI file (felipefrango.cfg) and hotkeys (which will probably overwrite the hotkeys there, so beware). The only changes to the…
teriyakistyle: no i'm right handed, i guess this is my excuse for the UI beeing settled to the right, less arm movement, the stuff on the top left i barely use, i guess the block with alphas and materials can be moved quite a bit to the right, but as i can't grab all of them at once i'm too lazy. On the right are the…