All the Major New Features

This list includes all the main additions or changes in ZBrush 4.

ZProjects

• Save all loaded tools, document size, light, material, timeline and render settings in one click.
• ZBrush 4 even includes sample projects to help you discover new features.

 

Best Preview Render

• Renders Shadows, Ambient Occlusion, Fibers, SSS and Transparency with advanced anti-aliasing.

• Multi-pass rendering with Shadow, Colour, Ambient Occlusion, Mask and Depth as separate maps.
• Render for still images or animations.

Project presentation

• Timeline for more than just simple turntables and animations.

• Keyframe management: copy, move, etc.

• Audio support with colour beats for manual animation synchronization.

• Fade in/out and cut keyframes for nice transitions.

• Ease in/out keyframes.

• MDD animation file format support for exporting and importing animation.

• Animation-capable layers, Tools, ZSpheres, background and more.

Concept creation

• Shadow Box for free-form creation.

• Move Elastic Brush to create stretch-free extrusions.

• Reproject improved for more finely tuned control of the results.

• Mannequin for quick scene setup.

• TransPose units to help you in proportions and sizes.

Hard Sculpting

• Clip brushes for slicing your models.

• By Radius and By Polygroups modes for the Clip brushes.

• Shadow Box to create original sculpting bases, combined with radial symmetry.

• New Strokes: Circle, Square, Curves.

Major brushes

• MatchMaker, the perfect brush to deform your mesh to conform to other 3Dmodels.

• Deco brushes, turn, spin - perfect for creative patterns!

• Clay Buildup will be your new Clay brush for the rough sculpting.

• Move Elastic, Move Topo, Move Parts: Stretch and deform with no constraints.

Strokes

• Roll mode improved with the Roll distance.

• New lasso/marquee selection mode, circle by center, perfect circle, curve for masking and hiding.

• Marquee, Lasso and Circle strokes working with symmetry for hiding, masking and slicing.

Pipeline and Productivity

• GoZ with Autodesk Maya (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Autodesk 3DSMax (2009, 2010, 2011), Luxology modo 401 (Sp2 to sp5), Cinema 4D R11 and R11.5

• GoZ SDK for integrating GoZ in additional software packages.

• Xpose to explode all SubTools, making it easy to work on a hidden one or create stunning animated effects.

• SubTool Duplicate and Insert, List All + ABC, Merge All for more flexibility when working on complex models.

• Solo mode to quickly isolate the current SubTool.