Corrupted ZSphere.

Steve Schulze

Behold the mutilation of my lovely hands...


I've been working on this ZSphere model for a while. WHen it was first created everything looked fine and dandy. I started with the head and torso so hid the rest. Now that I've come to work on the arms I find that the thumb Zspheres on only one arm have corrupted, in spite of the fact that everything has been symetrical right the way through the modelling process. I've tried Resyming it at every level of tesselation back and forth but it doesn't help much.

I'm wondering what my best option is here given that I've already spent a lot of time sculpting the body and head.

ironbearxl

I would export it out of zbrush and delete the messed up hand, then mirror the good looking one.

Steve Schulze

But then I'd be stuck with one resolution of mesh... I suppose if I just left it how it is until I've completely finished the mesh and replace it then it'd be feasible, although reattatching a really high poly hand would be a pain.

James Edwards

If it's only the thumb, why not delete it and make it over?
Maybe lower the subdivision level so you can get a better idea of what's happening to the preview mesh too.

arshlevon

i know its probably too late.. but also when making hands with zspheres you should try this method.. it works really good, topology wise
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=23136&highlight=hands+zsphere

Steve Schulze

That looks handy. Tah Arsh.

As it turns out it wasn't all that difficult to fix. Just a matter of turning off symmetry, using a whole lot of smooth brush and then Resyming. It'd be good to know what caused this to occur initally though.

EDIT:Actually no, the problem is back and now resym either does nothing or just makes it all spiky. Inflating and smoothing don't seem to help the process at all.