Member remon_v Posted December 8, 2010 Member Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 Hey guys I'm new to 3D coat, I'll introduce myself first: I'm Ramon from the Netherlands and I'm a 3D hobbyist for now (hope to work in the 3D scene in the future). My main 3D package is Modo 401 (soon 501!!!). I also own Zbrush which I'm learning atm. After learning I'll try some voxel sculpting aswell. Anyway I got some beginner question when I first opened 3D coat yesterday. First I tried opening a mesh in the open gl version of this program but 3d coat crashed (I have GTX 470). The directx version works fine though, so it's not a major issue. Second question is about workflow: Oke I have a sculpt from zbrush which is not so highpoly yet (about 300k). I want to retopo it in 3d coat before I continue sculpting in zbrush. What I did was: import the mesh for retopo. then I setup the settings and put some lines on the sculpt for the edge flow. then I let it auto retopo. after this I get a good mesh on it's got some tri's and ngongs. is this avoidable so I get a quads only mesh? or should I clean it up? Anyway the I want to export the retopo so I can use it in zbrush or modo again. I went to the retopo pull down menu and selected 'export' and saved it as a OBJ file. Then I tried opening this OBJ in Modo or Zbrush and it doesn't open. Did I do anything wrong here? Hope someone can help me here. thnx in advance remon_v Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Daniel Posted December 8, 2010 Moderator Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 Hello Ramon and welcome to the community! > about tris and n-gons: You can fix this manually with Retopo tools, or you may apply Catmull-Clark subdivision once (but it will increase amount of polys 4 times)! > as for OBJ error: I don't know what's wrong. You could post that OBJ here, and I will test it ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member remon_v Posted December 8, 2010 Author Member Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 thnx Daniel for the quick reply. If I can't fix the export option I will post the OBJ here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member remon_v Posted December 8, 2010 Author Member Report Share Posted December 8, 2010 I made a new retopo and now the exported OBJ works fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Daniel Posted December 9, 2010 Moderator Report Share Posted December 9, 2010 I made a new retopo and now the exported OBJ works fine Cool! Good luck in 3DC mastering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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