Recreating Subdivs for Zbrush zculpt??

AllinRisks · Nov 2015

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 · Nov 2015

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

AllinRisks · Nov 2015

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 · Nov 2015

You can project polypaint data on retopologized mesh.

AllinRisks · Nov 2015

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 · Nov 2015

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 · Nov 2015

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

Recreating Subdivs for Zbrush zculpt??

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