I worked hard on my most recent character………Oxchin! and as Misfortune hugs me, this file never opened up again after filling up with 20 subtools. Neverthless, it was a great work experience since it was my 1st with little clothes and lots of ropes and ribbons like accessories.

Sharing you with the concept I worked on for 5 -7 hrs roughly and the bigger armour is still not completed. I would have been very very happy to see this finished with war paints and all. Alas! Why this happened?

I wont complain to Pixologic team, Error was on my side and things can go wrong anytime………you should be ready with your backups. I was in total comfort of using incremental save in 3ds max and never for zbrush since it had subtools, layers etc. I still created a backup in Zbrush but that was too old to recover my new clothings and designs. After placing a supprt  ticket on their site This is what they suggested me -

Hi Bhaskar,

Thank you for using ZBrush!

Unfortunately there is nothing you can do to recover this model. Once a model has become corrupt there is no way to fix it. The best advice I can give you is to make sure you save your work incrementally so that you always have a good back-up in case something ever happens.

Sincerely,

Will Miller

Thanks Will, I ll keep that in my mind forever. My love for your team has tripled up thousand times. Had it been MS or Autodesk, I would not have dared touching my keyboard.

Apart from this I had a problem with Zbrush while exporting reimporting with 3dsmax……and that was with the scaling and position issue. That got me a surprised to see when all my meshes were tiny when importing into max again.

So what Zbrush does is that it resets the value of export ( you can change the export values in tools - export). So what you ve to tweak is to type those values again by reimporting the right mesh into Zbrush. I m placing the image here to get the things more clear. Anyone facing a problem can contact me. I m trying to keep this nice and short.

Probably I ll work again some months or years later, but for now I need a change.

So with another failure and I learned another lesson. Never to look back is another form of triumph, even though that character is comfortably lying in my HDD.