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I'm on a mac, so maybe that's why there's an error. Yours is crisp Ballistic?. I did no smoothing. Thanks. I wound up duplicating it, cutting, then merging to get crisper seams.

Hello, I'm trying to do some hard surface sculpting using Vox Hide and Unhide. As I tried Unhiding areas, I noticed I get alittle ring that looks like the two pieces were "welded" together. Does anyone know how to remove it, or is it a bug? Thanks! Bryan

Thanks for the advice. I guess the best I can do, is just keep working on it daily, doing studies and posting for feedback. Thanks again!

Awesome, thanks for the feedback again. I understand now about the sharp edges. What references would you recommend for optimizing meshes? / How did you learn this (trial and error?) I'm trying to be self-taught, and being pointed in a direction would be great. Thanks again for your help!

Your help was really great! Thanks! Digman and AbnRanger (RLTW). I retopoed some areas and added more details in the problem areas. With the poles, are you saying that because 5 lines intersect in that area, then that's what causing the white artifacts / crackly lines? This is what I'm getting. Here's what my retopos look like Lastly, the sphere normal baking helped in some areas. That is so cool. Is this unique to 3d Coat? And is am I supposed to use XNormal (I'm on a Mac). There's a lot of people saying that's the goto for normal baking, but I don't really know objectively how to compare since I'm still learning. Thanks!

Oh man, thanks so much for your help digman. I'm jumping on this after the holidays. Thanks again!

Hello everyone, I created a hi poly shield and then I retopoed it in 3d Coat and when I tried baking it. But, I got this I've been trying different configurations (retopoed parts of it again) and going over tutorials for about 2 days, but don't know what I"m doing wrong. Would someone enlighten me? I use Bake w/Normal Map (per Pixel), and set the outer edge to 0.9. Here's the 3b file with everything how I have it set up - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23847052/Shield_For_Baking.3b Thanks!