Error encountered while loading a tool

[system]

upon opening a Zbrush project I get this error message.

The project does open, but I have to redraw a tool, and some tools are missing(the troubled tools I’m assuming).

I have done numerous tests with the project files and have determined that when copying tools or subtools, will cause this to occur.

When I copy and paste, clone, or merge visible subtools this seems to be creating corrupted tools. Saving them out as a ztool and reloading will also create this error upon re-opening the project.

Now if I use a default polymesh like sphere or cube and append subtools over onto it the project has saved and reloaded porperly…(so far).

I have only encountered this problem in the last few days, and the only thing that has changed in my workflow is an increased use of the Z-modeler.

This is very frustrating because I have a alot of IM brush creation,copying and re-use in my current project.

Any help would be great

Thanks.

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[dillster]

Is this just happening with the one project, or with several?

[system]

Right now it’s just the one project, but across a few iterarations, so it doesn’t happen in earlier versions of the project only the recent ones, and I haven’t seen it happen at home yet.

[Altea]

Not sure but I think these problems increase when you save and load the undos, set in the preferences menu. I had recently the same problem and I discovered that save and load undos have been set on when normally they are off. No idea how.

[system]

Thanks.

I wish it was that simple, but I haven’t saved or loaded the undos, for a couple of years now. I did have major problems before I turned em off, like why my files were taking so long to load. It’s definatley something that should be off by default.

[Altea]

Sadly those problems appear when Zbrush has not crashed by a long period, something that makes impossible to know that the incremental files are all wrong. I nearly prefer that it crashes periodically as usually does. It doesn’t affect me as I save very often.

[goblin_bones]

I’m experiencing the same problem. I have several projects from different times of the year, all have different iterations of the ztool and i can’t load them on any version of Zbrush or even on different computers. I don’t get it at all how only certain projects won’t load. If it has anything to do w. what was said about copying, cloning or merging subtle, then that is a huge problem and pixologic needs to fix it.
I was one of the designers of Killer Croc for “Suicide Squad”, did a whole bunch of different variations of him, turntable vids, other stuff and now all those files are corrupted and I can’t load any ztl or obj file on any version of Zbrush. luckily, that show is done, but it scares me that this could happen again on a project while i’m working on it.

[Knacki]

Even though you haven’t saved undos I would give “skip loading” under Preferences / Undo History a chance.
Maybe there is something corrupted in this part of the file.
Takes only a second.

Bon chance!