What is the best way to bounce between zbrush and max?
Right now I'm just doing it with goz - I blocked out the shape of a boot in zbrush, and tried to zremesh it and bring it over to Max. But Zremesh seems to make the mesh an endless spiral. So you can't use that as a base mesh to model from. So I just sent over a decimated version and box modeled a boot around that and goz'd that back over.
Alt + zremesh will change the algorithm.
There are a few tricks you can do to help control the results in order to eliminate spirals (crease curve + frame mesh, actually sculpting loops in, etc), but depending on the complexity of the mesh it might still be faster to retopo externally than to fight with zremesher.
It's still a different algorithm, which results in a different edge flow. Some people have better results dealing with spirals when using it. It's not an easy solution, but it can still be a tool to employ just like curves, cuts, and sliders
I'll just use zRemesher to get a basis to work from and model it myself. Or I should just suck it up and learn how to sculpt everything I need in Zbrush
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Right now I'm just doing it with goz - I blocked out the shape of a boot in zbrush, and tried to zremesh it and bring it over to Max. But Zremesh seems to make the mesh an endless spiral. So you can't use that as a base mesh to model from. So I just sent over a decimated version and box modeled a boot around that and goz'd that back over.
Is there any better way around this?
Thank you for the help, i'll give the shift + zremesh a go.
There are a few tricks you can do to help control the results in order to eliminate spirals (crease curve + frame mesh, actually sculpting loops in, etc), but depending on the complexity of the mesh it might still be faster to retopo externally than to fight with zremesher.
But seriously, we all make mistakes
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/topology/zremesher/tips-and-tricks/
there is no easy solution to get great topology with zremesher u just hawe to combine diffrent methods. use guides for edgh rings .also u can zremesh just an portion of ur mesh by hidng the rest.see this text .http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/topology/zremesher/partial-mesh/