Problems with polypaint texture.

blasto0341

Okay so I built a pure quad base mesh t-pose for my character, was lazy and did not UV it right away. So after the sculpt and polypaint were finished I UV'd the tpose version of my character. Well I import the tpose and copy its UV set and then go to the posed version, go to highest sub division and select- polypaint-polypaint from texture. Then I go to lowest sub division and pase UVs then back to the highest and select- texture map- new from polypaint. This is where the problem is, the texture comes out all faceted... Anyone know why this is happening?

blasto0341

blasto0341

There is the texture map that is created from polypaint.

cryrid

Where did you create the UV's in? I'd check it there to make sure the UVs are welded and oriented properly. Applying a gradient texture in zbrush should give you an indication if the UVs aren't all facing the same way.

blasto0341

I did them in maya, and yeah they are all sewn together.

blasto0341

Okay somehow its cutting the UVs into pieces... I'm not sure what is causing this...

poopipe

obj export is probably the culprit - each face will be detached and flipped vertically about it's centre.

sad to say there's not much hope for you but to re-unwrap and hope it doesn't happen again.


does Maya's obj export have settings? if so, copy what the max gw:obj exporter settings are for the zbrush export

pixeldamage

yeah i've seen this before, can you not just reweld the uvs and export with correct obj settings? In zbrush there's also a Tool > Export > Mrg setting for welding and can be setup in the import/export prefs (if you want it as a global option).

Olli.

at least the gw obj exporter as a tickbox about something like flipping polygons, maybe you should try unticking or ticking that and see if it helps