Merging large meshes

rosu.kristof

What is the best way to do a boolean union on dense meshes (~10 million polys in total)? I have a sculpt that is made of separate, open pieces and I want to merge them with each other and some primitives so the whole mesh becomes closed and a single piece for retopology and more sculpting.

Thanks!
Krist

CharacterCarl

I suppose you could duplicate them, dynamesh the individual parts to a lower polycount, then merge the two, subdivide, then reproject detail from the original 10 mill. mesh onto it (maybe decimate it beforehand, if it's too huge).

rosu.kristof

Thanks! I haven't tried to do it with zbrush yet as I sculpt in mudbox. I tried meshmixer, 3dcoat voxels and maya's builtin boolean but they all died. This method should work though.