There’s a new version of zBrush. Great news for zBrushers, but it looks like it’s a bit tricky to get Sculpty Maker working with zB3.5.  Taarna Welles stopped by and left a few tips about how she got Sculpty Maker working with her copy of zBrush 3.5. Thanks Taarna!

I have worked with version 3.1 creating sculpties.
I bought Z-Brush 3.5 so I had to install the plugins again
but I had some trouble to create sculpties in 3.5.
I couldn’t create sculpties at all. As soon I tried to create a sculpty Z-Brushed crashed. I know Z-Brush can be very sensitive if you follow the wrong sequence. The plugins were in the right folder so it must be something else.

It took a while to sort out on two machines (one PC running XP the other Vista).
It works now after I follow the sequence below.

Start Z-Brush
Preferences – Initialize ZBrush
Chose new object
Make Polymesh3D
Modify your shape
Resize shape on all axes
Save your sculpty in ZTool (very important before you export your sculpty)
Export Sculpty

Done

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Taarna had some great samples of here sculpty work posted on her Flickr page.