Recreating Subdivs for Zbrush zculpt??

AllinRisks

So I made a sculpt. But in the process I used dynamesh in different occasion which led me to unfortunately deleting the lower subdivs. I did my poly-painting on the sculpt and now I want to export the texture but as the sculpture has too high polycount I cant create UV:s from it....Any suggested approaches?

PS. If I use ZRemesh or Decimationmaster, It creates new tools, So the HP models texture gets lost 

Scruples

Duplicate the subtool before Zremeshing/Decimating then subdivide and reproject the details from the original mesh.

AllinRisks

Thanks alot Scruples!! Did manage to do it by your help. But the polypaint dont want to follow. So I thought (after many tries) that I need to redo the painting, which is ok. But painting do not work anymore

final_fight

You can project polypaint data on retopologized mesh.

AllinRisks

Yeah done it once before on the subtool but the projection of the polypaint was not good. I did redo it now, and its OK. Not good, not bad. Annoying that I cant polypaint....So strange!

cryrid

I did my poly-painting on the sculpt and now I want to export the texture but as the sculpture has too high polycount I cant create UV:s from it....Any suggested approaches?

If you're just looking to create a texture, you can use xnormal to bake from the sculpt to a different / low-res mesh. The sculpt won't require any UVs, and the resulting texture is accurate.  

PS. If I use ZRemesh or Decimationmaster, It creates new tools, So the HP models texture gets lost

Turn on zPlugin: Decimation Master: Use and Keep Polypaint

AllinRisks

Oh nice CRYCID did not know there was an option called that! Will test it next time