High-poly to low-poly

Elodin

Hi, me again and I have a question for you, how would you begin to make game resolution model from this dude, because I tried several approaches and I end up with something horrible. The model is created in zbrush and it splits into parts perfectly. Advice needed. I'm mainly concerned about the body itself I tried to make a lowpoly with qremesher or decimation master and then transfer hd details but nothing good came from it.

ZacD

Model it by hand, most automated polygon reduction tools suck, there's a few good ones, like 3dcoats auto retopology.

Chase

Topogun for sure!

Minato

I'm assuming you used qRemesher with both curve guides and masking and at least 3 tries... because it's a lot of trial and error with that tool and these kinds of automated operations in general... but in the end manual retopo is the way to go especially if it's a hero piece, and it's gotten much more streamlined these days with tools like max's retopo tools... Also apparently Autodesk has added a really nice retopo tool similar to qremesher to Mudbox 2014...

Jeff Parrott

If you want to use a hand retop tool try 3D Coat (my fav) or Topogun (I actually use Topogun for baking AO maps).

Elodin

Thanks for the advice guys, I'll try out topogun for a starters, but manual retopology seems like a good way to me as well. That way I can be sure that topology stays clean.