Zbrush 202208 New

ZBrush 2022.0.8 serves as the definitive "end of an era" for the software, marking the final free update for perpetual license holders before the full transition to the Maxon subscription model.

• Live Preview: You can now slide the "KPolygons" slider and see the mesh degrade in real-time on the canvas, rather than guessing and hitting "Pre-process."
• UV Preservation: In older versions, decimation often destroyed UV mapping. 2022.08 introduces a "UV Aware" mode that protects UV borders while reducing triangles by 90%.
• Speed: A 10-million-poly model decimates to 100k in ~6 seconds (down from ~25 seconds in ZBrush 2021).

BevelPro

: A powerful plugin that provided a non-destructive way to create bevels on high-poly meshes without requiring perfect topology. It used a separate processing window to calculate edges, making it ideal for hard-surface artists who need clean highlights on complex shapes. zbrush 202208 new

ZRemesher Enhancements

: Refinements were made to the ZRemesher algorithm to better handle complex high-poly meshes, resulting in more logical edge loops for retopology. ZBrush 2022