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- [Narrator] This in an introduction to Zbrush, and digital sculpture. So, you don't need to have any prior experience, to get up to speed. I'll be letting you know about every hotkey I use, and explain everything that I'm doing. So, that you can learn the software starting from zero. Now, there's a few things to point out, to help make your learning experience go smoothly. First, Zbrush works best if you have a Wacom style tablet. There are some settings in the Wacom tablet properties, that I recommend for the best Zbrush, experience. So, on a Windows computer, I can simply hit the windows key, or go to the search bar. And type in Wacom, and get my Wocam tablet properties. So, with the pen settings, there's a few things that help it work best. Now, there's the tip of the stylus, which is used as a click, or a left-click. And then the stylus, has two buttons on the side. And there's one that's further away, from the left-click. Which I like to set to a right-click. By default, it's usually set to, I think to a double-click. But right-click works better for me. And then I like to set the one in the middle between the two as a middle-click. With the button set this way the stylus can use the same buttons that you might have on a mouse. Now, some thing else you'll probably want to change is the mapping. Now, depending on your monitor arrangement you might have a different display here. However, what I like to do is turn on Force Proportions. Now, when Force Proportions is turned on, that means you're going to have a one to one relationship, between your tablet and the screen. Now notice if I turn off Force Proportions, this rectangle changes in proportions a little bit, and that means if you're drawing a circle on your tablet, it's actually going to turn out to be an oval on the screen. So, for best sculpting, turn that on. And one final thing, I like to turn off Windows Ink. By default, this I usually turned on with Windows computers. So, I like to turn this off, otherwise it creates a strange little distracting effect, that can get in the way of sculpting. Okay, one final note, is that if you're opening up the exercise files, you can just double-click on them, to open them in Zbrush. Now it'll either launch Zbrush, or it'll just open in Zbrush ,if you have ZBrush open already. Now, depending on a few factors, you might find yourself encountered with this little menu right right here. Go ahead and close that with LightBox. And if the model doesn't pop up automatically, you want to click and drag on your screen, and then click on Edit. Now, this may or may not be the case depending on how you have ZBrush set up. Okay, with that out of the way, we're ready to learn Zbrush.

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