marcus_civis, super!
Can you help me make a script?
The idea of pushing a button and the camera turns from perspective to the orthographic view(nearest view).
After a couple of strokes, clicks back into perspective.
I hope you understand my English
video example:
Safronov3D press the key “p” and you switch from ortho to perspectiv view … press the “shift” key you lock the view to front or side view
Not having to press P each time was the underlying idea as I understood it.
I’d like to see this too but mapped to the default Shift key - probably not doable with a script.
There’s a handy script here to help with views, not sure why it hasn’t made it into ZBrush out of the box yet. Still works, follow installation instructions. Happy ZBrushing.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?161588-quot-Axis-quot-Plugin-for-ZBrush-4r2
thx O/MI, it’s much more action and the camera does not remember its previous position. The idea is that when you have the perspective shifted to a nearby orthographic view and remembered the previous position of the camera.
1st press: Remember Camera position, Shift+Stroke, Perspective Off.
2nd press: back to camera position, Perspective on.
PS you works is awesome
I agree that the Axis Plugin is not as straightforward - also the beauty of Zbrush’s nearest Ortho Snap is that it comes along without any UI…
Hi Safronov3D,
I’m glad you like the scripts & macros.
What you want to do is only partly possible - there are drawbacks. It’s not possible to monitor the ZBrush interface from a script, so you can’t get a script to switch perspective back on after a few sculpting strokes or seconds have elapsed. Also, any script you create will interrupt the sculpting process a little - you can’t have the mouse button pressed and the script work.
However, it is possible to write a toggle button that will work well with a hotkey. When you assign a hotkey it’s best to choose a single key, don’t use Shift/Ctrl/Alt as they don’t work so well (and you can’t use any of them on their own).
The attached code is for a simple plugin that basically does this:
- if perspective is ON then it stores the model position, turns perspective off and snaps to the nearest ortho view.
- if perspective is OFF then the previously stored position is restored and perspective turned on.
To test the code, save the file to your ZBrush /ZStartup/Zplugs folder, then press the Load ZScript button in the ZScript palette and select the file. You only need to do this once - ZBrush will create a ZSC file which will be loaded automatically when ZBrush starts.
The button will be in the ZPlugin palette in a sub-palette called Marcus Tools.
It may be you decide that you can adjust the script to work better for your needs. You can learn about zscripting here: http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/customizing-zbrush/zscripting/
Download the script here:
Thank you very much for your detailed reply and for the script.
Love to scripts and macros taught me in Maya. Now can’t imagine comfortable work without them in other programs.