Salvaging topology in Zbrush...

ChaosEidolon

Ok, so...Ive been working with the topo tools in zbrush, and it appears I have had my first newb move.

I did a solid chunk of my retopologized mesh, and then saved it out to work on another day. Going back to it, i realize that I only have the baked out geometry that the in-progress topo produced, not the actual active topo itself. (perhaps i did save it correctly and dont know how to get back into the edit mode? I tried to but standard procedure doesn't seem to work)

So Im thinking, if i use the quick-topo on the mesh im stuck with (hold shift and paint, auto generated the topo 1 for 1 on your faces) I will have the exact same topology that i left off with. Great that works...now the key question...

Is there any way to apply this topology to another tool? ie: the high rez one that I initially topologized to end up with what i have.

fingers crossed...

aniceto

in the topology rollout theres a "select topo" button, is that what you're after?

just do the whole process again when you're starting a new mesh topo with the zsphere, but use the "select topo" button and you can pick the mesh you made previously

CodeFather

Do you know that it is possible to bring topology as an OBJ. file. Here is how it works:

http://www.zbrush.info/docs/index.php/Importing_Topology

ChaosEidolon

Awesome...did the trick. I tried that before, but didn't have the new topology selected in the SubObjs so it tried to topologize my high rez, crashing zbrush =P

Thanks for the help guys