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Polypainting on layer problem!

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#1

Hi Guys,

I hope somebody can help me coz im freaking out!
I accidentally painted my polypainting with layer rec on. However if I now turn off the rec button my polypainting disappears completely. If I try to make a texture out of it (already uv’d) i get a funky black result with only a few painted spots.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Please dont tell me I have to redo everything :cry:

regards

#2

You could try pressing Tool>Layers>Bake All while still in Record mode. If you get some odd coloured squares you should be able to get rid of them by:

  1. Making sure the M button is on in the Draw palette (or at the top of the interface) so you are only working with Material.
  2. Select the Flat Color material.
  3. Press Color>Fill Object.
  4. Switch back to the material you had selected.
#3

Thanks for the advice. It didnt work. Let me illustrate it with screenshots:

screen.jpgscreen2.jpgscreen3.jpg

screen 1 shows the initial state with rec on on layer

screen 2 shows what happens if i turn rec button off

screen 3 shows what happens if i bake all

However it seems that theres only a small polypaint information on the layer at the cheek area. So when I turn rec off the other polypaint information gets overwritten.
But the strange thing is, if I turn layer intensity to 0 my polypaint is also gone.

Any idea what i can do now?

#4

I’m afraid I don’t know what’s going wrong here. You might try turning on RGB (you have M on) but I don’t think that will make any difference. I know that baking a polypaint layer can leave areas of black when the model has not been filled but it shouldn’t disappear completely.

It’s not clear which version of ZBrush you are using (4R5 or 4R6) but either way you should update to the latest release which is 4R6 P2 (free for registered users).

#5

Ok thanks. I just repainted it and in the future I will just watch out to never paint on a layer.
Seems there is no solution to this bug.

#6

You have 2 layers. Try turning off the visibility of the second one (the small eye icon) and leave the visibility of the first one on. Don’t click on record. It looks like the second layer is overwriting the first layer info when you bake all.

#7

Just create a new layer and turn off record mode. Then Bake all. That should fix the problem.
I hope this, altough late, could help someone.

Lucas.

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#8

This worked for me!