Is it me or does the smooth brush in 3.1 behaves differently from 3.0? Seems harder to work with now.
Yes, the Smoothbrush feels like it’s the flatten brush… What’s happened?? Can anyone explain? 
I think they’v changed the defaults so that it no longer scales up when smoothing. You can get the old behavior back by changing Brush–>Alt brush to something like 1.5 or so.
tried that, but it’s still working véry differently…
Same here… it smooths at VERY high subD levels and flattens everything at low levels no matter how low the settings. Can’t be happening… i need that brush!
Why dont you just lower the Zintensity when sculpting at low-poly levels? Should work just fine 
Somebody knows how make the smooth brush works like V3? ive read something about the curve but i tried various curves and i cant achieve to replicate it…
Im stuck because its a brush that i use 80% of modeling time.
I actually find the new smooth brush way better than in previous version. You can now really work on shapes “hard”, and smooth things out quickly without passing on the surface 10 times.
Thanks pixo.
Guilemo: alas, Zintensity has nothing to do with it. If I take any value and select a relative small brushsize, smoothbrush leaves a mark of it’s precense in stead of just making perfect invisible smoothing like it used to do.
Anyone? Smooth is ofcourse one of the most important brushes in Zbrush, so if it’s broken… I can’t imagine this is how it’s supposed to be, we must be missing something.
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=49437You may find some tips here, related to discussin on the new update. Read
or search within that thread, which has a lot about the smooth brush as well about other ones, found to differ from those in ZB3 and ZB2.
Anatom 
Set the graph like this :>
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](javascript:zb_insimg(‘65409’,‘smooth.jpg’,1,0))
Hi,
what works for me is: choose the smooth brush,then set the smoothing
curve to something like shown above,lower the z-intensity (the sm br
should be chosen for that,if you do it with another brush chosen
and holding down shift you just lower it for the chosen brush not
for the sm br as far as i know) to 50 or so,then choose your sculpting
brush again now you should get the desired effect when you press and hold
shift for smoothing(in case z-add is on,that is).
Hope it´s not too confusing.
but… how to store those settings? when i try to save the zcurve, the program exits and zcv file it saves corrupted (0 kb)
Thanks for the offered solutions. I tried all:
- lowered intensity, but I really think smooth should also work with a high intensity
- changed the curve in many formes
- changed the ‘brush modifier’
- changed from no alpha to a round alpha,
but nothing seems to work. I still get those strange flattening marks. This is how it looks:
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](javascript:zb_insimg(‘65416’,‘smootherror.jpg’,1,0))
It’s quite depressing. I never had to think about smoothbrush, it always did just what it should do. I hate whining, but… 
For me, no matter what settings I use it always pushes in somewhat. Not averaging anymore… its more like flatten than smooth. Something changed and its not good. I do not want to be adjusting curves every time I open the program just to be able to use smooth.
Yeah… ive been trying various settings too and nothing replicates the old and lovely smooth brush… its like the smooth have some kind of “flatenly” quality now. Sorry to complain, i love most of new features in 3.1 but i hate this new smooth… i simply cant use it, i cant sculpt this way, too much used to old smt. I been even thinking about “downgrade” to 3.0.
Not mention to the fact that the program keeps crashing every time i try to save the smooth curve.
BTW: sorry for my english…
Hmmmh…strange.
But since i´ve noticed other things like the standard brush
and the inflat brush being exchanged i don´t wonder.
This is totally unusable.
I have tried every dirty trick in the book.
Yep smooth is the new flatten.
Gees what was I thinking tweek was so last month
Maybe smooth is the new trendy brush
Thats it!!!
Smooth is the new flatten
Ok i think I got it try this
Goto the smooth brush and under stroke turn up the mouse average all the way to 8
and setup you curve like this under smooth curve
wow you can even set the focal shift for the smooth brush and it works!
set the focal shift to -100 and try smoothing, it smooths with a very minimal dropoff.