retopo and texturing

MITVIZ

i have a model that is already hight poly and textured, is it possible to retopo the model and keep the texture from the high poly model?

Obscura

In 3dsmax , you could bake a "diffuse map" that is basically a color map. This way you could also bake some other types maps as well, if you have. This feature probably exists in the most of 3d modeling applications. So this process would be basically the same as when you bake a normal map from a highpoly to a low, but in this case, you would bake the high poly mesh texture to the lowpoly.

MITVIZ

aha, sounds good, even though the uvs might now be the same correct?

Obscura

That doesn't matter in a ray casting baking process.

MITVIZ

thanks! i have to run some tests on some simple models