Help! : General managing of subdivisions in Zbrush

capone

So I was working on this mask and was adding the stitching but it was pixelated. The ONLY division it would look ok was division 5 which brings the mask at 12million+ ActivePoints. I really shouldn't be needing high numbers, my mesh was clean and I had used zremesher/claypolish going into this.

I'm really curious what other people would do with this dilemma? I'm thinking of trying to make a duplicate, zremesh and divide and then try and project the old one onto the new one.

CheeseOnToast

There's no way that should require 12 mil polys. Can we see your lowest SubD level topology?

WaYWO

I would make all things at high dynamesh then duplicate, and zremesh + projection, but as CheeseOnToast said there is no magic it should be ultra dense mesh!

capone

So yes, clearly my lowest division at 48K was way too high. So I deleted the stitches layer, dynameshed it (set to 824 resolution) , duplicated, zremeshed it and projected on every one of the 5 divisions.



Much better numbers now. At higest division I put the stitches back in with an alpha brush, it's ok but if you zoom in it becomes pixelated. I think this might be because of my alpha, perhaps it's too small at 443x438 pixels at 72 Resolution (dpi)? I opened up an alpha from my zbrush install folders and it was 438 x 375 at 200 resolution. Perhaps I should actually try insert mesh brush?

Confused :S

Thanks for the support!

peanut™

The first thing i'd do would be to go in geometry and delete the highest subdivision (all) and keep to lowest and start from scratch.

capone

What? Why would you suggest that? I have a good setup now.