[Zbrush] how to remove sphere edges

Blendermonkey

Hi, I modeled this cap from a sphere and there is this ugly merging point i Can't get rid of.
Can someone please tell me if there is a way around it?
Thanks, Blendermonkey

Swizzle

The cleanest way would be to export it, retopologize it, and then reimport it.

You could also duplicate it, use ZRemesher with some control guides to remodel it, and then project the details from the original.

Blendermonkey

So if I retopo it can I still project the details from the original?

Swizzle

Yup. Retopo it and then bring that into Zbrush. Project the details, subdivide, project the details again to get finer detail, etc. Do that until you get all the details of the original, and then continue sculpting to smooth out any errors or artifacts along the way.

C86G

Umm, I might miss something here, but can´t you just smooth it away (with shift, release and then smooth)?

Blendermonkey

@C86G no, because this is the place where all the vertices merge (top and bottom of the sphere)

C86G

If the polycount is high enough- and it looks like, smoothing with shift-release would still work. It´s exactly for smoothing uneven topology or heavy poles.

How about Dynamesh or a subdivided box projected to the initial cap? Many ways work here.

putka

This is the easiest thing ever in zbrush. In fact, it's one of the main reasons why zbrush is so awesome compared to any other sculpting app. I'm surprised you don't know how to deal with it :P

Simply dynamesh or z-remesh the hat (I would try zremesher first because it's more efficient polycount wise). Basically, duplicate this subtool, z-remesh it down to sub-10k polys, project the original, subdivide, project again, etc. till you're on a reasonable resolution.

After that, you're probably gonna have a little trace of that sphere artifact on your new clean mesh, so just drop down the subd. levels and gently smooth out the error on every subdivision level.

kay-vonlanthen

there is a polysphere in the tool palette. with it you avoid those things ("more or less"). as they said you wont come around a retopo. use dynamesh if you dont have a basemesh. then use the zRemesher if you dont want to do a retopo (zbrush does it pretty decent with simple shapes).

Blendermonkey

I tried to use the Zremesher but I get this error:
Unable to open file "ObjOut"
Didn't find much information about it.