You kinda missed that zbrush will both rotate and zoom around a focal point determined by where your last interaction with the mesh was. So if you are wanting to zoom into the eye for instance, you would not center the eye like you did, instead you would click the eye with your brush, then zoom. Centering the eye on screen has nothing to do with where the camera will zoom. It will zoom in irregardless of position and only dependent on what was clicked last.
You can also use right click (if your stylus supports that) to drag for rotation and hold alt for panning and alt>release for zoom with the right click held. The advantage of this is that you can do it even while mousing over the sculpt without having to move away.
3:35 this is what is infuriating me with learning and using Zbrush... Snapping when I hold shift, releasing it cause the camera to jump to a completely different angle and I don't know why or how to stop this.
This is just what I've been looking for coming from a 3d background. I started a couple of zbrush tutorials I'd purchased online and just got confused trying to navigate my way around.
Thanks for this! Today I started using Zbrush after a long break and completely forgot how counter-intuitive the ui and controls are. It will take some time to readjust.
When your used to working in 3D environments but you have to look up how to rotate the camera because the controls don't work by default......My problem is that I can import an object and place it and then none of the controls work at all....I forgot how to fix that.
The snapping is the best tip here for me. Blender also has a snapping option so I can just sync up movement that way. Also clicking the axis on the top right if you want to snap by axis is great too. I have this keybinded on my mmo mouse on blender
@@3dmutiny Sorry I meant zbrush needs a proper viewport gizmo like exists in every 3d package but Zbrush. I'm incensed it's not there because it means I can't line up my profile work with reference. I can't believe nobody's made a plugin.
@@NickelCityPixels ZBrush only has the Q W E for move, scale and rotate. Then you can click the cog icon to access more traditional 3D functions. They do a lot of things unconventionally 😄
@@3dmutiny Thanks I think I had local transforms off in the transform menu. I wanted to obrit around center of the mesh and be able to zoom to my cursor. But I don't think this works with local turned off. With local on I was getting weird camera rotation obriting around my mesh. Thanks for replying.
Hello! Maybe this has nothing to do with this video but at this point I’m desperate so I might as well give it a try, do you know if the angle of view of the camera in zbrush affects the final look of the 3D printed sculpture? For example if I use a 28 angle of view... when I print it would it look more or less the way it looks in zbrush? Thank you
If you’re referring to the focal length of the camera lens, then yes. It will very much affect the look of your model if you sculpt something looking through a focal length of say a 28mm focal length vs something a 85mm focal length. Drastic difference. But if you’re referring to the angle at which you’re looking at your model, so like straight on vs from the side, that will have less of an effect, but you could miss represent the way it looks from the sides you never examined.
This tutorial is teaching possibly the worst way to navigate... like, ever. If you're a beginner and is struggling with it, here's how you do: Right mouse button. That's it. RMB controls the camera without needing to tap on a specific part of the canvas, works anywhere. Ctrl, Shift and Alt are your modifiers, Ctrl zooms, Alt pans and Shift snaps to the nearest axis. Just remap one of the side buttons on your pen to RMB and you're good to go, zbrush's interface is confusing at first but the key is that it's highly optimized around using a tablet rather than a mouse. I know the video is 3 years old at this point, but many beginners will end up finding this when looking for tutorials and essentially botch their whole learning experience by using the most ineffective method for possibly the action you do the most in any 3d software.
Interesting, but I strongly discourage this. A situation where a person can't move on screen due to lack of canvas space is below 1%. Especially given there's a boarder for you to rotate so it's actually closer to 0% To assign a pen button for the rest of an artists career to solve a
@@taylorroddinI'll share my experience vs 1 software tool developer writing documents I've taught 1000s of students face to face dealing with navigation. Left handed, right handed, visually impaired, some requiring specialised keyboards, screen tablets, learning difficulties. Each one is tailored to the specific needs of the individual. If there's one thing I know deeply it's this subject. As an overwhelming majority, they prefer to use the method outlined above. In the range of 80%+ I've also working in countless studios, I've never seen a AAA artist use pen buttons for basic functions. What the website says is irrelevant. It's purely dependant on personal preference and logical efficiency.
i remmber like you could click on the model and hold the click and move around it would move the camera around where your mouse was last placed at, useful if your model is upclose how do i do that
I got as far as the part where he says to open the female head and it isn't there. This keeps happening with every zbrush tutorial I try they seem to have things going on that I cannot find in my version. How are you supposed to learn this program?!
this camera movement is such a pain in the ass. It's not only difficult, but totally unusable without a skill. Like really, it just speaks for itself, when you need a whole video about mastering a camera movement. Like, I play many games oriented about building some vehicles, etc. Like Space Engineers, From the depths, Kerbal Space program, Automation. And I just don't need a whole tutorial to use the camera. Same for 3DS max, I just try some keys, and it just works. But Zbrush? Not only the keys are very unintuitive, but they don't just work properly. Like, when you hold Alt, and right click to move, if you release alt before right key, it just superzooms, instead od moving, like in literally every other software. Why can't they just make it not matter which key you release first? Also, let's say they can't. So why the hell I can't just edit the hotkeys, like in literally every program???? It's so sad, because the software is powerful, but such a pain in the ass to learn.
Ye, it's super frustrating at first. You're not wrong. Give it some time and you'll start to see the method in the madness. A lot of their camera movements have been designed with the pen in mind. Once you're used to it, navigation becomes second nature like moving your arm. Hopefully the practice techniques help everyone get used to it quicker.
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When the user interface is so bad you have to look at a tutorial to move the camera.
Haha, definitely!
I get it Zbrush is a powerful software
But the UI navigation is ridiculously unfriendly
Yup, I agree. UI is so bad!
agreed
You kinda missed that zbrush will both rotate and zoom around a focal point determined by where your last interaction with the mesh was. So if you are wanting to zoom into the eye for instance, you would not center the eye like you did, instead you would click the eye with your brush, then zoom. Centering the eye on screen has nothing to do with where the camera will zoom. It will zoom in irregardless of position and only dependent on what was clicked last.
You can also use right click (if your stylus supports that) to drag for rotation and hold alt for panning and alt>release for zoom with the right click held. The advantage of this is that you can do it even while mousing over the sculpt without having to move away.
3:35 this is what is infuriating me with learning and using Zbrush... Snapping when I hold shift, releasing it cause the camera to jump to a completely different angle and I don't know why or how to stop this.
hmm. Check you're letting go in the right order.
Sometimes it can also be a graphic tablet issue.
Shift and F. Thank you very much that's what I needed. (Only knew the zoom)
You're welcome!
I wish ZBrush just had a regular camera. The rest I can learn but fuck the camera.
This is just what I've been looking for coming from a 3d background. I started a couple of zbrush tutorials I'd purchased online and just got confused trying to navigate my way around.
Awesome. That's why I made it. I know it can be confusing for a lot of my students :)
Thanks for this! Today I started using Zbrush after a long break and completely forgot how counter-intuitive the ui and controls are. It will take some time to readjust.
When your used to working in 3D environments but you have to look up how to rotate the camera because the controls don't work by default......My problem is that I can import an object and place it and then none of the controls work at all....I forgot how to fix that.
The snapping is the best tip here for me. Blender also has a snapping option so I can just sync up movement that way.
Also clicking the axis on the top right if you want to snap by axis is great too. I have this keybinded on my mmo mouse on blender
It is insane that we have to have videos like this for basic navigation. No other software package as this kind of backwards, hostile user interface.
ummm ya.. i need to make a customized mousepad with every hotkeys of Maya + Zbrush + Blender printed on it 😭
Thank you so much! The tutorials I saw kept using "ctrl", but for me, "ctrl" is mask. Again, thank you so much! Alt works for me!
v useful
Very, very helpful for beginners. Thanks!
"zed brush" interesting
It's zed everywhere exept your country
Man, thanks for this.
2 WORDS: VIEWPORRT GIZMO
Viewport gizmo is decent to reset the camera. However, I often see students rely on this for navigation, which is bad practice.
@@3dmutiny Sorry I meant zbrush needs a proper viewport gizmo like exists in every 3d package but Zbrush. I'm incensed it's not there because it means I can't line up my profile work with reference. I can't believe nobody's made a plugin.
@@NickelCityPixels ZBrush only has the Q W E for move, scale and rotate.
Then you can click the cog icon to access more traditional 3D functions.
They do a lot of things unconventionally 😄
@@3dmutiny I'm still struggling wityh this. Is there a way to increase the snapping resolution of the low poly head gizmo?
any posible way to rotate when the model is cover (bigger than) the whole canvas and I dont want to zoom out before I can rotate?
Good question. you can use the area outside the canvas (which i just know after reading your comment)
thanks for the cool tutorial! :)
My camera zoom is locked to the position of my characters head how do I fix this problem
CTRL + N to clear canvas and redraw the tool.
Or F to frame the camera.
@@3dmutiny Thanks I think I had local transforms off in the transform menu. I wanted to obrit around center of the mesh and be able to zoom to my cursor. But I don't think this works with local turned off. With local on I was getting weird camera rotation obriting around my mesh. Thanks for replying.
Thank you SO MUCH!
Hello! Maybe this has nothing to do with this video but at this point I’m desperate so I might as well give it a try, do you know if the angle of view of the camera in zbrush affects the final look of the 3D printed sculpture? For example if I use a 28 angle of view... when I print it would it look more or less the way it looks in zbrush? Thank you
If you’re referring to the focal length of the camera lens, then yes. It will very much affect the look of your model if you sculpt something looking through a focal length of say a 28mm focal length vs something a 85mm focal length. Drastic difference. But if you’re referring to the angle at which you’re looking at your model, so like straight on vs from the side, that will have less of an effect, but you could miss represent the way it looks from the sides you never examined.
This tutorial is teaching possibly the worst way to navigate... like, ever. If you're a beginner and is struggling with it, here's how you do: Right mouse button.
That's it. RMB controls the camera without needing to tap on a specific part of the canvas, works anywhere. Ctrl, Shift and Alt are your modifiers, Ctrl zooms, Alt pans and Shift snaps to the nearest axis. Just remap one of the side buttons on your pen to RMB and you're good to go, zbrush's interface is confusing at first but the key is that it's highly optimized around using a tablet rather than a mouse.
I know the video is 3 years old at this point, but many beginners will end up finding this when looking for tutorials and essentially botch their whole learning experience by using the most ineffective method for possibly the action you do the most in any 3d software.
Interesting, but I strongly discourage this.
A situation where a person can't move on screen due to lack of canvas space is below 1%. Especially given there's a boarder for you to rotate so it's actually closer to 0%
To assign a pen button for the rest of an artists career to solve a
@@3dmutiny in fact, the tutorial on the official zBrush channel recommends using RMB
@@taylorroddinI'll share my experience vs 1 software tool developer writing documents
I've taught 1000s of students face to face dealing with navigation. Left handed, right handed, visually impaired, some requiring specialised keyboards, screen tablets, learning difficulties. Each one is tailored to the specific needs of the individual.
If there's one thing I know deeply it's this subject.
As an overwhelming majority, they prefer to use the method outlined above. In the range of 80%+
I've also working in countless studios, I've never seen a AAA artist use pen buttons for basic functions.
What the website says is irrelevant. It's purely dependant on personal preference and logical efficiency.
i remmber like you could click on the model and hold the click and move around it would move the camera around where your mouse was last placed at, useful if your model is upclose
how do i do that
I believe if you just tap it. Then that is used as your last reference point.
I got as far as the part where he says to open the female head and it isn't there. This keeps happening with every zbrush tutorial I try they seem to have things going on that I cannot find in my version. How are you supposed to learn this program?!
Not to worry, the head is only a random object to test with. You can use anything.
Stick with it though, the start up is the most frustrating part.
How do I reselect the same object?
You can Alt click a subtool. But what I suspect, you may need to press CTRL+N to clear the canvas
@@3dmutiny That was fast, thank you!
two minutes on a introduction???
this camera movement is such a pain in the ass. It's not only difficult, but totally unusable without a skill. Like really, it just speaks for itself, when you need a whole video about mastering a camera movement. Like, I play many games oriented about building some vehicles, etc. Like Space Engineers, From the depths, Kerbal Space program, Automation. And I just don't need a whole tutorial to use the camera. Same for 3DS max, I just try some keys, and it just works. But Zbrush? Not only the keys are very unintuitive, but they don't just work properly. Like, when you hold Alt, and right click to move, if you release alt before right key, it just superzooms, instead od moving, like in literally every other software. Why can't they just make it not matter which key you release first? Also, let's say they can't. So why the hell I can't just edit the hotkeys, like in literally every program???? It's so sad, because the software is powerful, but such a pain in the ass to learn.
Ye, it's super frustrating at first. You're not wrong.
Give it some time and you'll start to see the method in the madness. A lot of their camera movements have been designed with the pen in mind.
Once you're used to it, navigation becomes second nature like moving your arm.
Hopefully the practice techniques help everyone get used to it quicker.
Too long spending 2 munities just talking
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