"Upgrading" Meshes

Buzzer

Hello people,

I recently received the task of "upgrading" a few meshes. The client (a friend of mine, that's why accepted the job) want's me to take a few untextured low-poly meshes and create the high-poly versions and texture them.

What do you guys suggest? Any good tutorials on detailing low-poly meshes in ZBrush? What about texturing those, can i do it within zBrush too?

jocose

Well it sort of depends on what the meshes look like. You will probably just want to use them as reference, make a new clean base mesh, and then bring it in to Zbrush for sculpting. If they are highly optimized with lots of triangles it might be a waste of your time to try and edit the original so it can be sculpted, but that depends on how complicated these models are I suppose.

That's my two cents.

Buzzer

They are low poly models, like wood planks, floors, walls and some props like traffic signs, posts, etc. They need a better texture and more details (baked into a normal map).

arrangemonk

schreenshots would be nice