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BrushPallete v.02 (New version see POST #9)

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#1

Aloha,

   [i]This is my second week of having ZBrush and I ended up writing a simple utility (I guess that's what you would call it). So be kind to this Noobie.
   [/i]

Anway, in Photoshop & Painter, I enjoy having Brush Sets that I can just click on to call up. Watching some of the training videos, I wished I could easily set a brush with one click. (yeah - I already know about the right click & spacebar technique) Anyway, I created this ZScript to do what I wanted. After loading the ZScript you will get a set of 10 blank buttons. There is also LOAD and ABOUT buttons.

Use ALT-CLICK to store a brush’s Draw-Size, Focal-Shift, Intensities, and Brush Type (STD, Layer, Pinch, Nudge Smooth, etc.)

   The Brush-Size shows up on the button with a prefix of the Transform-Type, as follows:
  • Std: no prefix
  • SdtDot: D
  • Smooth: S
  • Pinch: P
  • Nudge: N
  • Layer: L
  • Inflat: I
  • InflatDot:i
This letter is followed by the Brush size. Hovering over the Button will give you more information aboput what was stored. I had wished I could have used colors to indicate Transform Type but unfortunately that can't be done AND show a variable number. (I really wanted to know that size :) ) 
   You can save a set of brushes by Alt-Clicking on the LOAD button.
   You can recall a set of saved brushes by just clicking the LOAD button
   
   I hope this is useful - just like I hope that this isn't already in ZBrush.
   
   Let me know what you think....
#2

Well done Greg! :+1: I’ll give it a test later. Thanks. :slight_smile:

EDIT: great work. Works very well. :sunglasses:

#3

Works like a champ :+1: Nicely done. This would be a good candidate for making it into a plugin so that it be available at need.

#4

Aloha & Thanks Marcus & Digits…

Where do I learn about making a plugin?
Is this all I have to do? ← See Post#3

The Docs seem a little thin on this topic? :wink:

#5

That’s it in essentials. You can have buttons, switches or sliders if you want to create a mini interface (see my Reference Image plugin); they all have to follow the same naming syntax where the subpalette is also in the button/switch/slider name. But you can’t have anything other than buttons/switches/sliders as part of the ZB interface, so if you want captions, sections, etc. then the best way is to create a plugin button that launches your main script. Svengali’s ZMats works like that, and it works very well too.

#6

Morph and MorphDot are not availiable in the transform modes.
Just thought I would let you know.

Nice Work :smiley:

Chris

#7

Pilou

#8

Although this is true, interestingly it is quite possible to set quite a few of the ZB interface items when they are ‘not avalilable’ including Morph and MorphDot.
This obviously is not necessarily desirable so, in this case, instead of using [IExists,] you need to use [IGetFlags to find the state of the StoreMT button.

#9

Aloha,

Thanks to Marcus_Civis I was able to enhance this ZScript with colors.

Use ALT-CLICK to store a brush’s Draw-Size, Focal-Shift, Intensities, and Brush Type (STD, Layer, Pinch, Nudge Smooth, etc.)
Click will apply these settings to the Brush.

The Brush-Size shows up on the button with a prefix and Color as follows:

Std: no prefix White
SdtDot: no prefix White with red dot
Smooth: S Blue
Pinch: P Pink
Nudge: N Aqua
Layer: L Yellow
Inflat: I Green
InflatDot: I Green with red dot

The letter is followed by the Brush size.
Hovering over the Button will give you more information about what was stored.
You can save a set of brushes by Alt-Clicking on the LOAD button.
You can recall a set of saved brushes by just clicking the LOAD button
If you save a set of Brushes to default.cfg, it will be loaded as your default.

Because of the way it is written, I think this will need a major overhaul to become a plugin.
Maybe yes… maybe no.

Let me know what you think…

#10

Just Dl’d this and can’t wait to try it out! Thanks for taking the time to make it so we can have more fun!!

#11

much thanx…was getting tired of changing brush props over and over.
Comes in handy.