Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Undocumented ZBrush Features Part 1

So here is a neat little something Pixologic threw into the new 3.5B release and didn't tell anyone about : ) There is a new gesture based navigation system in development for ZBrush. Right now it is in its early stages but still fun to use.

  1. To zoom into a part of your model hold shift and draw the stylus pen back and forth over a small area of the model without touching down on the tablet. ZBrush will zoom into this point.
  2. To zoom out hold shift and make a circular motion, again without touching the pen to the tablet.
  3. To rotate around Z press shift, left click and hold on the canvas, then release shift and drag the mouse / pen. This rotates around the current axis of view which has always been a tricky rotation to get in ZBrush!

A cool trick, especially since it saves you a keypress or two. I'm interested in seeing how this develops into version 4.0

Scott