Torus shape in Zbrush

I'd be the first to say that I'm no expert when it comes to sculpties, having only gotten into the concept about a month ago. I've read up on all the available tutorials in the forums (I think. Maybe a few escaped under the radar). So far, haven't seen anything to help me with this problem. I've been trying to create a belt strap using the program, and the converter just doesn't seem to like those torus shapes. I've doubled-checked the SDivide/LDivide count, tried importing a shape from sculptypaint. Nothing.

Can anybody tell me whether I'm doing something wrong, or if there's a work-around?

lately I have been using wings3d as my go between for setting up the obj and for converting it once I am done sculpting it elsewhere

You can most of the zBrush primitive shapes like sphere, cylinder, plane, etc. If you ar eusing the SculptyMaker converter made by 2K suisei then you'll need to set the Initialize parameters of each zBrush primitive to 32 for hdivide and 33 for vdivide. The ring (torus) shapes does work as well - sort of. The sculptmap that is generated is a bit messed up, sort of sheared at a 45 degree angle. You can fix the map with Photoshop but it does still have a few glitches.

I'm actually in the middle of making a new tutorial about using the zBrush primitive shapes to make sculpties. It should be on my Shiny Life website sometime today or tomorrow.

If you want to work with a Torus, I would suggest using Wings3D along with Omei Turnbull’s converter plugin and objects. You can still sculpt in zBrush by loading in the object then converting with Wings3D. YOu can find that stuff here:

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Thank you so much for your help. I'd actually just downloaded Wings 3d tonight, and was looking up further tips when I saw your reply.