Zbrush Zspheres and creases

shinkicker

Hmmm...

I always end up with these frustrating creases when I use zspheres.

Any ideas on how to avoid this?

Bartalon

It looks like your mesh is actually clipping through itself as well. Did you accidentally crisscross the zspheres?

arcitecht

Heh, I go easy mode when I run into topo issues in zbrush. Dynamesh to unify everything and get rid of clipping etc, then zremesher until it is a nice workable lowpoly mesh.

CheeseOnToast

Make sure your draw size is set to 1 when drawing out zpheres. It's pretty unintuitive but it makes a big difference to the end result, assuming you're turning them into an adaptive skin.

JedTheKrampus

I'm with arcitecht on this one. Dynamesh it at a low-ish resolution and smooth valleys and re-dynamesh with ctrl+click and drag on the canvas until it looks about right, then ZRemesh to start sculpting proper. I don't really bother with debugging ZSpheres anymore.

shinkicker

Thanks for the feedback. I will certainly try dynamesh next time. In the end I just remade my zsphere outline and was careful with the move tool.