week 1

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CUSTOMIZE UI

Preferences > enable customize

Go to a brush palette and drag to desired area of the UI.

To move buttons around press Control + alt > click and drag to desired area in the UI.

BRUSH PALETTE: Big icon pulls the brush palette (menu) and small icons represent the brush itself.

To delete or get rid of buttons: control + alt > click and drag button to the document.

-          Select brush > let it appear in brush palette > click and drag holding control + alt.

If you want to locate anything inside the Zbrush interface go to preferences> lightbox> lightbox.

Pimp out the UI with colors:

Preferences > Icolors

 Click on the buttons and drag to the color palette on the left side of the UI to choose your color. If you need to go back to the previous color click and drag back to the last button with the color you want.

To turn off Customize UI go to preferences> custom UI and click the custom UI button.

Create your own HOTKEYS:

MAKE SURE CUSTOMIZE UI is off.

CONTROL + ALT > Hover over the desired button and press the hotkey button you want that button to be.

-          To set the custom UI as the permanent interface you need to store the UI.

-          Preferences > Config > Store UI

Saving the UI enables you to create a saved file of your UI that you can take anywhere and use it in other computers.

CREATING A CUSTOM MENU.

Turn on Custom UI

1.       Press “Create new UI” button> name it> press enter and then look for the menu in the upper part of the UI (palette menus).

2.        Click and drag menu to desired area in the UI.

3.       Holding control + alt click and drag the buttons to your new menu.

4.       You can name your menus palettes after adding items in it.

5.       To erase buttons control + alt and drag them to the document space.