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Replace object with another and keep uv map


thedaemon
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I posted this question in normal map seams thread but I believe it will go unnoticed there. I have a mesh that I've created UVW map in 3d-coat and textures in 3d-coat. I found out that I need to add more polygons to my mesh. So I went back to wings3d and added more polygons. How do I replace my current object with the new one whilst keeping my uvw map and texture layers? Thanks

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I've never tried this but.... in zbrush you can convert a texture map on a ztool tool to polypaint then using retopo functions - project detail onto a new topology mesh. The project feature (Tool>Projection) within ZBrush projects topological changes as well as polypaint information to the new topology mesh - then the polypaint info on the new topo mesh can be converted back to a uv texture. The issue would be that the projected detail would be the detail of your original mesh on your new topo modified mesh but perhaps these could be re-sculpted to suit the newly cut geometry - or perhaps modified by a copy of the geometry modified mesh using the projectall in subtools?

In Topogun I believe you can also bake ZBrush polypaint detail from a hi-res Brush polypaint import on to newly created geometry.

Just an idea or two and really the best I can suggest in the circumstances but perhaps there is some other technique with cheating vertex id's and u positions etc within other apps having modified geometry after uv's?

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