Member Dreamcube017 Posted February 19, 2011 Member Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 I have a problem. How in the LIGHT do you retopoligize THIS??? I've tried mutliple times and it didn't work. I think it's because there were some extra voxels in the layer elsewhere that I couldn't erase. I've just exported two version so fothe model. I exported a low 2000 poly version and a high 144,000 poly version. How do I bake the detail from the high poly model to the low poly model? I tried using Big Mesh import, but I wasn't sure what to do. I know there's another app to do this, but I think I'm know 3DC can do it already. This is almost always the main issue I have with 3DC. I can never get it to polies through retopo. I just export straight from voxel. That way, I can be sure the shape is EXACTLY right and I can reduce it later. I just need to get the high poly details on the low mesh. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member michalis Posted February 19, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 What you're asking is simply impossible. How to capture almost separated volumes on one single volume? Even with the use of displacement maps? To displace in what way? There're holes here. Not just bumps. Another hard to do case. A thin cloth, a thin wing etc. Chaos! See my point? I almost started a 'fight' against the way 3dc is developing. Against the workflow that 3dc UI suggests. What to do? Simply construct a low clean and smooth voxel mesh (1M max) do topology and ONLY after this, you can sculpt possible details on this surface. We almost have this ability in 3dc (MV) and I'm still waiting for improvements. After I realized this simple truth, I'm just exporting to another surface sculpting app and everything works fine. 3DC works fine too as I don't expect miracles like snapping a hi def cage around complicated meshes like the one you posted. Try to work in MV mode and do some displ sculpting on clean topology. Not fantastic but you'll find yourself working on the real thing, the final project. For chain and rope cases, there's another way though. To directly export the curve as obj, to import it as topo mesh and UV unwrapping. Please dont expect to bake chains on a 1000 faces mesh from voxels. There're brushes - alphas for this. Just directly paint them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Dreamcube017 Posted February 19, 2011 Author Member Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Thanks... Great, there's a lot of work down the drain. Hmm.... Man, I'm afraid to do anything in the voxel room now... geeze. Even for larger things, I'm afraid it still won't come out right even though the larger things should work just fine. As I said, I DO have a low poly version alright. (without holes,) so I guess I could paint on that. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member michalis Posted February 19, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Man, I'm afraid to do anything in the voxel room now... geeze DON"T Just try to have a clear target in mind. You can save lot of details on a low poly mesh but not this kind of details. If a spaceship or a machine using Tinkers tools is what you have in mind then you're in trouble. A low poly mesh is impossible this way. I'm wondering, Why not to construct some nice alphas of these machines and directly paint them ... ok, I have an idea now. I'll test it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member michalis Posted February 19, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Here, testing my idea, this is why I asked Andrew if its possible to export 16 bit depth maps from rendering room. A six faces PPP depth. I used a simple rendering with lot of AO and direct lighting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gilded Posted February 19, 2011 Member Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 some type of mesh transparency baking option might be nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member michalis Posted February 20, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 In this case, just export directly from the curve tool. Much better believe me. You can reimport it for UVs and painting then. Here, I have to admit that I already constructed low poly versions of some spline profiles. Used blender for this (0 at scaling when importing obj) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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