Partly combining the best of the automatic workflows too ? But this is all just pure speculation on my part. My guess is that it’s going to be far more ambitious than just the UV tools and the most logical conclusion is that it will involve in the not too far future at least, some sort of new manual re topo tools. People keep asking too and they keep saying ‘ Still under development.’ Then they reveled the up dated manual UV tools last year and yet it’s not made either of the proceeding version releases. It seemed a lot of effort to go through just to have another poly grouping methodology when what is there already works so well anyway. When I first saw PolyGroupIt and that early GPU window section I thought this has to have a much bigger potential in mind than just another method to poly group things. Ofcourse Pablo is doing a tremendous job rapidly improving Sculpt Mode, so I’m keeping a close eye on the developments.

Another thing that makes workflow in ZBrush a little easier and clearer.

If you want to have it all: efficient hard-surface modeling, smooth organic sculpting and everything in between, it’s advisable and sometimes necessary to make use of a number of add-ons in Blender, while in ZBrush you almost need no plugins, and the ones you need are integrated. Even a simple tool like pressing the ‘1’ key to repeat the exact same brush stroke multiple times is something I miss in Blender Sculpt Mode. I also really miss Polygroups and the related toolset in Blender, I miss the volume-preserving alternate smooth brush, the Polish slider, ClayPolish, and so on. Other arguments in favor of ZBrush are of course the impressive amount of polygons it can handle and the convenience of having on-screen tools for slicing, clipping and trimming. And each mode has its own rollouts in several places. Then switch to Vertex Paint mode to paint, switch to Object Mode to select and move objects around (with pivot point), switch to the Texture editor to work on UVs, and so on. In Blender you need to switch to Edit Mode for polygon operations, using a number of the same keyboard shortcuts for different purposes. There’s one canvas, and all tools are balanced to work together on that canvas. My argument would be the coherence of ZBrush. Yes, I was thinking why I keep going back to ZBrush, even with the current Blender Sculpt Mode developments. The way that all the tools come together in often unorthodox ways to build new workflows. This is an example of the ZB ‘ecosytem’ I go on about.

Zbrush 2020