I have a reference picture in zBrush 2019. Brought in with Spotlight. I want to use it as an overlay, with it’s opacity turned down, while I model underneath.
But when I go to turn off Spotlight, using either the Z key or the Shift+Z key The spotlight circle disappears but so does the reference image.
Is this a bug or am I missing something? I want the reference to overlay my initial polysphere.
Thanks for any help on this.
Pressing the hotkey Z should simply hide the Spotlight dial, your images should stay on the screen. Make sure the Spotlight Radius is not set (select and turn the dial to 12 o’clock) - it’s the icon next to Opacity.
If the images are still disappearing then check that you haven’t got a sticky key for Shift activated, or something similar.
When working with Spotlight for reference images, it is a good idea to turn off the Spotlight Projection button in the Brush palette>Samples sub-palette.
Thanks marcus that must have been the problem. When I tried it this morning it worked fine. Thank you for your reply.