Jagged Edges After Inflation

Trioxin

Hi Guys,

I've been trying to incorporate a little hard surface on my recent sculpt with a sort of virtual reality visor. I'm basically trying to mask off areas and expand / contract them to create plates and grooves off the main visor shape. However, I end up with a stretched jagged mesh. Can anyone provide insight on how to get more crisp edges for something like this? (You can see the little jagged edges from the line I put in)

Nathan3D

I dont think this is the right section for this but ill try answer anyway, you could take it into 3ds max or whatever software you use and retopologize it then scultp from there. just the topolgy fits better because right now it looks like your topolgy just goes up and down the model if you get me where as it should follow the curve you have sculpted in. So try retopo it then bring it back in and subdivide

Brian "Panda" Choi

You won't want super crisp edges for normal map baking. you usually want SOME rounded off on the edges.

Trioxin

Thanks a bunch guys. Sorry if it's in wrong section

Megacorpse

The Zbrush way to do that would be to define your extruded shapes with the mask tool, then create polygroups from this mask and from there you have a tool that modifies the topology to make it follow the curves nicely. I don't remember the precise process, though.

garriola83

Do a retopo and crease the edges you want to crease.

Trioxin

Thanks for the responses guys. I'll have to mess with retopo in zbrush