Making details on Maya smooth surfaces

tekkoontan

can some one help me with this? oh god (T_T)

AdvisableRobin

Zbrush only uses hard edges, just subdivide that sucker, it won't matter once you're baking. When you are creating your lowpoly that is when you deal with edge hardness.

m4dcow

If you export from maya as .ma, it will preserve the crease sets and then you can sub-divide to smooth everything out while retained your crisp edges.

Bartalon

Using GoZ straight from Maya to ZBrush should also retain crease data.

If you have ZBrush 4r7, creasing has been substantially improved with the implementation of the new low poly modeling tools. It's much easier and faster to crease edges now.