Why are all my retopped subtools projecting into electrified fetuses?

Shadowplay

I recently retopped a figure, no porblem at all with complicated physique, now im trying to retop some of the subtools that go with her and everything is exploding in every which way. I have tried everything maybe somebody knows what i can do.

I thought at first it was a problem with the projection but as you see in the images, the non projected also have weird problems ..it almost looks UVs

Shadowplay

not just the belt either, these shoes dont look too happy

Oniram

hahaha i love the name of the thread.

it seems you have your projection distance set too high. it may help to do 1 or both of the following.

set up a morph target so you can get all of that mess back to where it was without messing with other things.

lower the dist and just do tests on each subdivision level. not sure if you are but it helps to start with subd 1, project, then 2, project, and so on.

Shadowplay

Nope projection is on 1, default, i havent toyed with that stuff. Also it doesnt seem to have anything to do with projection. the second and third picture in the first post of the belt, the projection is turned off and there still large gaps.

Oniram

maybe once you are done with retopping, go import the mesh into max or maya and see if its ok in there. if there are gaps just fix there

Shadowplay

hmm i guess i can import a non projected retopped mesh set at 1 into maya and see whats going on

Shadowplay

eh just looks exactly the same as the preview, covered in holes

Shadowplay

this is driving me nuts, ive literally been at this all day

cryrid

Care to upload a ztl that has one of the meshes + it's retopo submesh? I wouldn't mind poking it a bit with a stick.

Shadowplay

ima try and merg all polygroups when i get home tonight and try that out, if its still no go then ill drop a few into my dropbox and link em here. thanks i appreciate the help, only a few days left until the brawler contest ends and i wanna have something turned in.