Alpha Window

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3-8. Alpha Toggle Buttons

3. Alpha Off

• This will remove the alpha from the current brush and set it to no alpha.
• This is a temporary effect. It will not be saved in the brush settings.

4. Brush Alpha

• This setting will attempt to restore the current brushes original alpha if it has been changed.
• There is a known bug within ZBrush where the brush will lose it's alpha temporarily until the brush is reloaded from the load brush menu.
  • This button will not fix it in this case.
• This is the same button as the brush "alpha button" in ZBrush

5. Edit Alpha

• Flip Horizontally
  • Flip the alpha horizontally.
  • This is a temporary effect.
  • This does not save in the alpha.
  • This is the same effects as clicking the "flip horizontally" button inside of ZBrush.

• Flip Vertically
  • Flip the alpha vertically.
  • This is a temporary effect.
  • This does not save in the alpha.
  • This is the same effects as clicking the "flip vertically" button inside of ZBrush.

• Rotate 90
  • This will rotate the alpha
  • This is a temporary effect.
  • This does not save in the alpha.
  • This is the same effects as clicking the "rotate" button inside of ZBrush.

• Invert
  • This will invert the alpha.
  • This is a temporary effect.
  • This does not save in the alpha.
  • This is the same effects as clicking the "invert" button inside of ZBrush.

6. Bit

• 8-bit
  • This will display all 8-bit alphas
• 16-bit
  • This will display all 16-bit alphas
• 32-bit
  • This will display all 32-bit alphas

7. Resolution

• 128
  • This will display any alpha with the longest side equal to or less than 128 pixels.
• 256
  • This will display any alpha with the longest side equal to or less than 256 pixels.
• 512
  • This will display any alpha with the longest side equal to or less than 512 pixels.
• 1024
  • This will display any alpha with the longest side equal to or less than 1024 pixels.
• 2048
  • This will display any alpha with the longest side equal to or less than 2048 pixels.
• 4096+
  • This will display any alpha with the longest side greater than 2048 pixels.

8. Ignored

• This will display all alphas regardless of whether or not they have been marked to ignore.

9. Rescan Alpha

• This will reload the alpha from the file.
• Doing this will erase any temporary changes you have made to the alpha.
• This is useful if the alpha has been modified outside of the ToolBox while it is open.

10. Ignore

• Setting this on any alpha image will flag it as a "non-alpha image" and hide it from the main view.
• You can display all ignored images by clicking the "ignored" toggle button.

11. Quickedit

Description

• You can add any description to any alpha here.

Category

• You can set the user category here.
• New categories can also be created here.

Tags

• Tags can be added here.
• A brush can be assigned or unassigned a tag here as well.

Dimensions

• This shows the dimensions of the currently selected brush.