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1. UV layout before or after importing to Zbursh?

   

   Topic by polyGeek · Nov 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   Hi everyone, I just modeled a low res object in Maya and before importing to Zbrush do I have to do UV layout first?

2. Re: UV layout before or after importing to Zbursh?

   

   Reply by almighty_gir · Nov 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   if you UVW map before importing into zbrush, you may run out of sub-d levels too early. as each sub-d level has a uvw map. if you sculpt without uv's then none of the sub-d layers have uv's, which allows for more memory per object to be used. generally speaking i don't UV anything until after the retopo stage. it's not…

3. Re: UV layout before or after importing to Zbursh?

   

   Reply by Barbarian · Nov 2012 · Home› General Discussion

   No, you can import it (or GoZ it). You can UV unwrap it in ZBrush, or Maya, or other program (before you cast normal, AO, etc. maps). You may end up retopologizing it anyway. You have to be careful when exporting from ZBrush because if you don't have the correct settings ZBrush will not export the UVs.