Cleaning up a model for Ce3

IgnitionChemistry

Hi guys, I'm trying to render a mesh character in Cryengine3 and need some help.
I've worked on this model for a few weeks and I would hate it to move it to the trash bin because I like it so much and wanted to keep it as portfolio piece in a more proper render.

The problem is I used Maya and Zbrush back and forth and decimation master and the topology is a 'bit' messy, I think the cryengine exporter doesn't like it and won't let me export.

Here is what it looks like:




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Can you help me sort this out?

JedTheKrampus

If you can't be bothered to clean up and retopologize the mesh, you can usually export a .fbx file and drag and drop it on to the resource compiler and it should work OK. The RC doesn't do error checks on .FBX files like the Maya plugin does, so it should always work unless you have spaces in the .FBX filename.

IgnitionChemistry

I can be bothered with correcting the mesh! I've just no clue on how to do it, I could merge the vertices piece by piece but that wouldn't guarantee its success, plus its a lot of manual work, I'm just looking for better options!
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it later!

IgnitionChemistry

Well I tried it and the only thing it imported was the tank top she's wearing :S

e-freak

try selecting what seems to used to be quads one at a time, delete the faces and close the gaps again. How did you get the topo to look like this?

MeintevdS

Don't use decimation master to get your lowpoly for characters. Do a retopo using topogun, 3D Coat, Maya,3Ds Max, Zbrush or whatever prefered software you wanna use. It'll be less work than trying to clean up the mess the decimation master will give you and it will no doubt give you a better result.

IgnitionChemistry

Yes, it happened because of decimation master... I've never done a retopo but I may give it a try, Im a little sad to have this problem

Shiniku

Since you're using a game engine I assume your goal is to make a game-res asset? You need to look into a high-to-low workflow, creating a lowpoly model over your high-poly and baking normal maps and textures to it.

I think you just need to familiarize yourself with a game art pipeline a bit.
Do some reading on the polycount wiki
And also check out this tutorial from Adam Fisher
That tutorial is really close to my workflow, is relatively recent and really should give you a good overview for character pipeline for games.