ZBrush Projects
From ZBrush Info
ZBrush has always allowed you to save your work on a per-element basis through the various palettes such as Texture, Alpha and ToolThis functionality remains in ZBrush 4In addition, ZBrush can now save its current state at any time as a Project.
The Project feature allows you to save nearly every aspect of what you’re working on, with a single click.
The Project file contains the most important elements loaded in ZBrush:
- Document size and colors.
- Loaded Tools and their SubTools.
- Current Tool position.
- Camera position.
- All maps assigned to a Tool or SubTool.
- Floor visibility.
- Perspective value.
The Project file doesn’t contain:
- Textures residing in the Alpha or Texture palettes.
- Position of the elements in the User Interface like opened menus.
- Brush settings if they have been changed, or brush inventory.
The projects displayed in Light Box
- Project files can be large depending of the number of loaded Tools in ZBrush.
- If you wish to save only the current Tool as an incremental save, we strongly advise to save the Tool through the File or Tool palettes and not use the Project feature for this.
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Saving a project
Saving a Project is similar as saving a Tool or any other kind of element:
- Go to the File palette and click on the Save As buttonA system window will appear.
- Choose the destination folder and enter a name.
- Click on the system window’s Save button.
Hotkey: CTRL/Command + S
The File >> Open and Save As Project buttons
Loading a project
We advise you to save your projects in the ZProject folder, located at the root level of the ZBrush folder:
- Go to the File palette and click on the Load buttonA system window will appear.
- Browse your computer to select the Project to open and click on the Open button(Some operating systems allow you to double-click the Project file to select and open it.)
- Your Project will now load. If a non-empty document already exists, ZBrush will ask first about saving it first.
Alternatively:
- Open Light Box.
- Select the Project section.
- Double click on the desired Project to open it
Reverting a project
At any time, you can revert your current project to its originally loaded state or the last saved state (whichever is more recent) by clicking the Revert button located in the File palette.
A confirmation dialog box will ask for approval or will let you cancel the operation..
Projects and document size
The WSize option (located in the Document palette) defines the size of the document as the maximum size that will fit within the ZBrush interface. If this option is activated when saving a project, then upon opening an existing project which has a defined Document size ZBrush will automatically change it to the maximum size that will fit within the current interface.
The WSize switch, located in the Document palette to the right of the New Document button
If you want to load your Project with the saved Document size, press the Shift key while opening a Project. You can also just turn the WSize switch off.
Removing un-necessary Tools before saving a project
[need to edit this] You can now remove unused Tools before saving your project to reduce its file size or simply to reduce interface clutter:
- Select the Tool to delete.
- Go to the Tool >> SubTool menu.
- Delete all SubTools: When deleting the last one, the Tool will be completely removed from the Tool palette.
1: Select the SubTools to delete. 2: Click Delete, located in the SubTool menu. 3: Repeat this step until you have removed all SubTools
Keep in mind that when deleting a Tool (by deleting all of its SubTools) the Tool palette will be reorganized. If you have several custom tools loaded in the Tool palette, deleting one may cause the others to appear to have been deleted as well. All you need to do is click the large Tool thumbnail on the left shelf (or in the Tool palette) to see the entire list of available models.
