How do I import high res model w/ polypaint into Maya?

DataDragon · Jul 2015

I made a concept sculpt in Zbrush, then made a low res in Maya, based off of the concept sculpt. Now, I am staring at my low res model, and I want to create a normal map and whatever map that will make my low-poly look high resolution.

I'm thinking I can bring in the low-res into Zbrush, subdivide it, and then paint it. Eventually, importing this to maya as a model to transfer the detail from.

So far, I've tried just this, but the high res model did not keep it's materials/color after importing it into Maya.

What should I do?

DireWolf · Jul 2015

Material, probably not. Vertex color, I'm not sure but try this. Zbrush paints to vertex color so maybe.
http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/index.html?url=files/Coloring_polygons_Make_vertex_colors_visible.htm,topicNumber=d30e167413

EarthQuake · Jul 2015

I would use Xnormal to bake the normal and polypaint data. XN can bake polypaint to a diffuse texture. If it's a dense mesh, you may have trouble importing into Maya (either very poor performance or crashing on import).

How do I import high res model w/ polypaint into Maya?

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