I thought it was about time I shared my little ALPHA BRUSH UTILITY that I called `AlphaManager`. Based very much along the design layout of Texturemaster it is a little ZScript that I call from my Default ZScript.

WHAT IT DOES

AlphaManger is a simple ZScript that resides in a directory with sets of Alpha Brushes. This revision comes with 5 sets of 12 Alpha Brushes :

Set 1: GENERIC
Set 2: GENERIC
Set 3: SHAPES
Set 4: INFLATORS
Set 5: SYMBOLS

The ZScript comes with 60 Alpha Brushes built in and has buttons available to handle 48 of your own making.

NOTE: To add your own Alpha Brushes to the `A` buttons you need to save them in the same directory as all the other files in the following order:

A1 button 1: Name the files alpha-61.bmp to alpha-72.bmp
A1 button 2: Name the files alpha-73.bmp to alpha-84.bmp
A1 button 3: Name the files alpha-85.bmp to alpha-96.bmp
A1 button 4: Name the files alpha-97.bmp to alpha-108.bmp

When the program is initially installed the A buttons will not work!

HOW TO RUN IT

The 1.5 MEG ZIP file unpacks to an impressive 9 MEG (The Alpha Brushes are saved as .BMP`s and as such can be compressed a great deal). Place all the files into a directory in the ZScript folder:

ZBrush123b/ZScripts/SGFXZScripts/ZBrushes/

It should however run from any directory as long as the files are all kept together. There is a DEFAULT button on the interface that returns you to your default ZScript.

WHAT DO ALL THE BUTTONS DO?

Clear Custom Alpha Brushes : Resets the Alpha Brush panel back to the default Brushes

Default: Return to your Default ZScript

A1 (Four buttons): User definable buttons. Add Alpha Brushes to the ZBrushes Folder with the relevant numbers and file extensions and Alpha Manger will call them in the same way as the files included with the ZScript.

Alpha Set 1-5: 5 Sets of twelve brushes called 12 at a time.

H V R N S: Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical, Rotate, Negative, Make Stencil.