Posing Characters in ZBrush 

You should add the rigging > bind mesh so you're able to pose

Not all heroes wear capes.. Thank you..

How about instructions on deleting joints. seems obvious but not mentioned...

only difficult when trying to twist parts

Thanks Chris! :) Glad we can be of use.

Thanks Glen! You were a huge inspiration for us

Fantastic - Thanks!

Cheers James :)

Happy to help!

I fixed it , Tools > Geometry > Lower Res . and then i did the same in the video.

Hey! The rigging tab has been there for ages, and it's definitely t here in 4R7. Did you look under Tool - Rigging? :) It only works if you are on the Zsphere subtool.

@@FlippedNormals i followed it but is taking ages to move each part, i feel over whelmed because u said it was using the lowest subd and is still taking ages

Use Transpose Master TposeMesh in Zplugin menu to make a low poly version of the entire tool and the you do this step with Zspheres , pose it click Tpose to sub tool and there you go. This might work I didn't tried it personally.Good Luck.

I'm having the same problem. When I press Bind Mesh and try to pose the character, only the zsphere rig skeleton moves. What am I doing wrong? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z7kRakEzf3Q.html

I'd also like to know the answer to this. I'm guessing you would create an adaptive skin through the sphere you used to sculpt your model then rig the model on top of that with another zsphere, but I don't want to have to recreate the zsphere when I already have them.

Good question. Too bad no one has answered yet. Would be insanely useful.

​@@PeepoFrog Looks like these guys don't post replies. When I click Tpose SubT it prompts me for a file from disk. Pretty disappointing if I cannot get it to a mesh and no one is gonna reply anyway.

@@audioglass that happened to me aswell if i inserted a new subtool into the scene or if i accidently started sculpting something.

@@PeepoFrog Seems like sculpting raw with Sculptris Pro Mode is how I will end up doing it. I wanted to try rigging so I could make multiple poses for a client, but rigging seems too prone to undo-able errors which will take longer. Damn... Another year passes where I don't understand rigging :/

its under zplugins just incase anyone else is wondering

theres a different tutorial saying if you mask out and extract a tiny piece somewhere on the figure you can have multiple subtools to tpose mesh without disrupting your aesthetics.

This is my question exactly! Any answers to this? I am posing a from t-pose, and I have to make quite drastic changes in the pose.

go to transform and click the button that says use poseable symmetry

Great question, I just threw in an extra cylinder so I could accomplish this. Don't really see the point.

tpose mesh is for posing things with multiple subtools, so that plugin requires multiple subtools to start

just zbrush things

Same issue here, I get some strange stairs locking behaviour in my mesh while deforming.

Answer I found: Transpose Master works best with, and is designed around the idea of, posing a combined tool of all the selected subtools at their lowest level of subdivision, and transferring those changes back to the original tools at their highest level of subdivision. This means that for best results, each subtool involved should have a low poly base, and multiple levels of subdivision. The fewer points there are in your low poly base, the easier it will be to pose without distortion, and the easier it will be to repair when some inevitable distortion does occur. Lower poly meshes will also perform much better in this mode. If your mesh does not have a suitable base level of subdivision, you can use ZRemesher to create one, subdivide it sufficiently to establish multiple subdivisions levels and high res detail, then project the detail from the original back onto it.

@@karimdaouiji9146 I'm having the exact same issue. I'll give this a shot and see what happens.

OK, this did actually work, but I had to take my 2.5 mill model down to about 10 thousand and the stair-step distortion still happens ever so slightly in a few spots..

Yes - it should.

Excellent.

Hmm, that's weird. How many subdivisions do you have on it? Do you have display subdivisions on?

And thanks for the great tutorial!

Search for Reusing a Zsphere Rig in Zbrush (by Gary Calhoun) here on youtube. That should help.

I'm not sure I understand your situation but if your model only has 6 million poly you will have to follow these steps in order to properly get it to work: 1.)Duplicate the model hide the duplicate under subtools and click on the original 2.)Zremesh the model (with groups if you have any) to 5K 3.) Subdivide once and unhide the duplcate subtool but dont click on it continue to have the zremeshed model selected 4.)Under subtool go to project and click project all 5.)Subdivide the model again and click project all 6.)If the model looks clean stop or go ahead and subdivide once again and project all 7.)You can delete the duplicate subtool and now your model has more subdivisions which will now allow for zsphere rigging or subtool posing under Transpose Master

Thank you so much ! I will try

Yup! That's how we normally do it.

you want to check other videos of this channel about how to sculpt. This is about rigging, something that you do after you already sculpted your model. By the way, what you are looking for is how to create an adaptive skin.