Tips for lightening a model load in Zbrush?

NAIMA

Hi I have right nw a very heavy polygon intensive model with severall subparts , is there any way to keep working on id reducing the delay lag time I have every time I make a modification? is putting all subtools that I am not working on in the moment to lowest subdivision or hide them really usefull? are there other tricks to speed up Zbrush and improve the speed?

Joshua Stubbles

Well really man, why post the question? You're already answering it yourself. Yes, hide what you're not working on. Yes, reduce subdivision on things you're not working on. These are common sense things. There's no magic tricks or anything, just follow that set of rules and you'll be good.

NAIMA

Becaue I am not sure if the engine realy gets lightened up , it seems so but I wanted to know if it is actually like that...

WarrenM

Wouldn't it have been faster to just try those things rather than start a thread about it? Or did you try them and they didn't work?

NAIMA

I tried , I wanted just to be sure and that I wasn't making it up by my impression ...

wolver

you can use decimation master to reduce the polycount massively but it introduces tris. not a problem if your nearly done and using xnormal, but some people dislike it anyway.
apart from that you might be able to figure out away of using HD-geometry modelling to mask of small areas at a time to work on.