Facial Expression Guidelines for ZBrush

While editing your character’s facial expressions in ZBrush, keep in mind that the plugin supports the customization of up to 13 different facial expressions. It’s essential to avoid renaming or removing model parts, as these are critical information for the Face Tools plugin to identify a compatible model during the update from ZBrush back to Character Creator (CC). The following guidelines will help you maintain model compatibility between ZBrush and CC.

13 Supported Facial Expressions in ZBrush

In ZBrush, the Face Tools plugin only supports 13 different facial expressions in its panel, any other expressions beyond these options are not supported by the plugin.

• Supported Facial Expressions

  Mouth Smile in ZBrush	Mouth Smile in CC

• Unsupported Facial Expression

  Unsupported in ZBrush	Supported in CC

Avoid Renaming and Removing Model Parts

When transferring your model from CC to ZBrush using the Face Tools plugin, the CC models are turned into ZBrush subtools. Changing the default names of model parts or removing them can make the model incompatible with the plugin. Therefore, it's important to keep the default model part names and their quantities unchanged.

In ZBrush, there are a total of 15 default layers.

Layers Name List

1	CC_FaceToolsTemp	9	CC_Jaw Open
2	CC_Brows Raise	10	CC_Mouth Frown
3	CC_Brows Compress	11	CC_Mouth Pucker
4	CC_Brows Drop	12	CC_Mouth Smile
5	CC_Cheek Raise	13	CC_Neck Tighten
6	CC_Chin Up	14	CC_Nose Sneer
7	CC_Eye Blink	15	CC_Detail Layer
8	CC_Eye Squint

When adding new layers to your project, avoid giving them names that are either the same as or similar to the CC subtools (including titles starting with “CC_”). Using identical or similar names might make it difficult for the plugin to correctly recognize layers for updates in CC.

Suitable Layer name	Unsuitable Layer name (Including the title CC_)	Unsuitable Layer name (Identical naming )