Soft-Edged Low Poly Objects in Z-Brush? (Non-Quad Appearance)
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Hi, still getting used to Zbrush, but I was wondering if anybody has any idea how to apply smoothed normals for low poly objects in Zbrush that aren't intended for Catmull-Clark sudivision surface. I want to retain the low poly appearance with the subdivided details still on the mesh. I've tried to export my mesh with Smoothed Normals checked, but this is the results I get on Blender or any other 3D software:
As you can see, the Mask still has prints of the polygons, which I would like to turn off in Zbrush. For reference, this is what the Mask looked like before importing it into Zbrush and would ideally want it to look when exporting it or enabling that option in Zbrush even:
If anybody knows how to turn this off in Zbrush so I can get a smoothed out, low poly look just like the image above, with the sculpted details on, I'd be eternally grateful!
As you can see, the Mask still has prints of the polygons, which I would like to turn off in Zbrush. For reference, this is what the Mask looked like before importing it into Zbrush and would ideally want it to look when exporting it or enabling that option in Zbrush even:
If anybody knows how to turn this off in Zbrush so I can get a smoothed out, low poly look just like the image above, with the sculpted details on, I'd be eternally grateful!
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That being said, if I understand correctly, you might just do the detail in texture and stick it on the low poly shape. You can't really subdivide and keep that low poly faceting without keeping the faceting as seen in the first pic. There are so many normals on the denser mesh that the shape will render more accurately, smooth shading has far less to do when the polys are so dense now the don't need to barely blend shading to any connected faces.
" I want to retain the low poly appearance with the subdivided details still on the mesh" if the last image is what you what it to look like, closest pure ZB high poly thing you might do is add creases to the hard edges then subd in ZB. It'll stil smooth around the circular loops though. Granted it's a little different result, but that's what you are trying to fake with the smooth/hard shading in blender, ZB just does it for real in actual geo.
It's not completely clear to me what you want to do but I would split the mask and these tiny spikes into two subtools. Then subdivide only the mask and sculpt on it