Zbrush remeshing Intricate meshes

Chappers

Hi guys,

I've been following a tutorial on zbrush to create a ornamental object. It looks like the following.



My question is, its currently around the 3 million poly mark. I can decimate it down below a million, but it there a way I can remesh this to create a base mesh to then hand create the topology. At the moment whenever I try to get a mesh to wrap around it, I get abnormal issues where the gaps in the mesh are as it cannot find any geo to attach to.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers

EDIT: This is a screenshot from the original piece. I take no credit for it :P

Eric Chadwick

If you're going into a game engine, the panels would be best done as alpha-mapped polygons. The low-res topology does not need holes in it, the alpha map does that.

Pretty much the same thing for the dragons on top. The dragon head can be simplified, and the scales along its back could be alpha-mapped on a strip.

SuperFranky

Yeah, I'm thinking you won't get much use out of Zremeshing here. Do it by hand, use alphas and other maps for everything you don't need in geometry.

Chappers

Thanks guys! I'll look into Alpha map stuff tonight!