Light Box

From ZBrush Info

Light Box for ZBrush 3.5 is a light version of what will be Light Box for ZBrush 4. Currently, it’s a browser which can display the content of folders located on your hard drive.

Light Box will display the content of the folders located in the root folder of ZBrush, by categories: Documents, Tool, Brushes, Material, Alphas, Textures, ZScript and Other.

At anytime, save your own content by using the default ZBrush Save/Export buttons for each item: Brush >> Save as, Texture >> Export, etc. You can save your content in your own folders and browse them with Light Box.

You are able to save shortcuts in Light Box. If you have an external hard drive you can put a shortcut in the ZBrush3.5>ZTools folder so that will always be there when you load Light Box.

If you would like to access your own folders in the Other tab just save all of your Texture, Alphas, and etc in the ZBrush>ZExportImport folder. How when you click on the Other tab all of your folders will be there.

To open an element, simply double click on it. If it’s a 3D model / ZTool, it will be automatically loaded. If it’s a texture, it will be loaded in the Texture palette, if it’s a material, it will be loaded and selected, etc.

Shortcut to launch Light Box: Shift+Z

Light Box Navigation

Light Box offers several ways to navigate and display its content:

• At the top, click on one of the category names to display and browse its content: ZBrush, Documents, Tool, Brush, Material, Script and Other. These hyperlinks refer to ZBrush default folders.
• On the right of these default folders, click on the left or right arrow to switch from one category to another.
• Click on the left folder with the up arrow to go up in the hard disk hierarchy.
• Click on the other folder icons to enter in these folders.
• On the top right, choose to display on, two, three or four lines of icons.
• Click and drag on the bottom of the Light Box window to scale it up or down: it will change the size of the content preview.
• Click and drag in the content, including on a preview icon to move on the left or right the Light Box content.

Light Box Preferences

In the preference palette, several Light Box settings have been added, including the function it takes to open at ZBrush startup. Uncheck the Open At Launch option to make Light Box close when launching ZBrush.

Several options allow you to change the look and feel of Light Box and also the number of threads used to create the previews of the displayed content. More threads will mean a faster display of the thumbnails.