ZBRush Crease Pinching Issue

Brian "Panda" Choi

Hey Polycount:

I'm using the crease tool to get my hard edges from low-poly retoplogized mesh.

I've been getting pinching issues at the highlighted areas. What do you guys recommend I do to resolve those areas, even after operations like "Smooth," "Deformation>Polish," etc.?

slosh

I hardly ever use pinch for this very reason. I would just try to hit it with hpolish as best you can. You can try turning off the option for pinch that doesn't suck all the geo to the area you are trying to pinch but that obviously makes the tool much less effective.

Neox

he is not using the pinch brush, but complaining about the pinching happening there, thanks to creases

and this is no specific zbrush thing, it would happen in any software using this workflow. The best solution would be to use proper supportgeo and not creases in this case

jfitch

Instead of making those a hard edge like that you could bevel it and have something more like \_/ at the meeting of those two faces, and it would give you slightly less bend. But what Neox said is right, you'll want to modify the geo.

slosh

oh, my bad! i often add extra geo and crease those to prevent that from happening...