There are also a couple of modelling features that weren’t shown in the ZBrush Summit demo, including a new Infinite Depth option for several of the existing brushes. New Infinite Depth option for sculpting brushes The details recorded can then be painted back over new areas of the sculpt. The three new XTractor brushes work in a similar way, but on a smaller scale, with the user sweeping the brush across part of the surface of a model to capture surface details that have changed. New XTractor brushes paint local changes in surface detail across a sculpt

The system is topology-independent, so it works regardless of any changes that have been made to the model in between or even to transfer detail from one model to another. The workflow can also be used in reverse, projecting Redo History over the model in an earlier state. Users can select the state of a model from the Undo timeline, then paint that state over the model in its current form, selectively reversing any changes made. Of the new features, perhaps the most unusual are the new history-aware sculpting tools, like the HistoryRecall brush shown in the video at the top of the story. Most of the tools in ZBrush 2020 were previewed at Pixologic’s ZBrush Summit user event earlier this year, so check out our original story for more details. Use the new HistoryRecall brush to selectively undo or redo changes to a sculpt The update – which, yet again, is free to all existing ZBrush users – is currently available to pre-order, and will ship on 12 November 2019. The release adds a set of interesting new history-aware sculpting tools, the option to sculpt or paint on the UV unfolded surface of a model, and to edit the colours of previously Polypainted assets.Īrtists creating models for 3D printing get a new real-time draft analysis system, automatic analysis of the wall thickness required to fabricate a model, and improved file export options.

Pixologic has unveiled ZBrush 2020, the next major update to its digital sculpting software. Scroll down for news of the commercial release.

Zbrush 2020