Fixing bad geometry from high res sculpt

rodpv

Hi guys,
after I finished sculpting a portrait in Zbrush, I discovered that behind one of the eyeballs there was a little mess of bad geometry.

I've tried to correct it at low subd levels but somehow it all get worse at highest levels.

I tried to use the move brush to fix each single polygon, to smooth, etc but I can't seem to fix this problem in Zbrush.

Would anybody point me to a possible solution?

Thanks!

deohboeh

I faced this. It is a devil of a problem.
I had to move each polygon and then smooth the problems...
Later I came to know of these..
If you have an earlier save
1. Try having a morph target before you change the geo and then use morph brush to clean it up.
or
2. You could
* take the new Geo as another subtool
* Divide it as many number of times of your original subtool.
* Save morph target on SubDn
* Then with SubDn on the original subtool and SubD1 on new subtool use ProjectAll for all levels from 1 to n (if n is the number of subdivisions on the original subtool)
* Then use morph target brush to clean everything up.

1. is a bit experimental (I don't remember if this worked or not) but 2. is a sure shot. Works 60% of the time every time.

If you don't have earlier save and are stuck with SubD levels of bad geo, start smoothing from level 1 upwards. You might have to go down though cause going up levels projects its information down also.

I hope this is useful..

stevston89

Here is how I usually salvage my work from this issue:

1. Duplicate the lowest subdivision and delete the higher sub divs.
2. Subdivide your mesh back to the same level.
3. Mask off the problem area on the duplicate.
4 Project your original sculpt on to your duplicate with the masking still there.

You will have to resculpt that portion, but it's not that bad.

rodpv

Thanks a lot guys!

I opted for Stevston's idea since I'm not too practical of morph targets and it's working great. I'll just have to do it a couple of times to make it perfect.