Hi. For some reason I just can’t figure this out.
I have this model in zbrush:
And I want to make a normal map and displacement map for it so that if I make a plane, I can get all these details.
The problem is that I don’t have a low rez. I just have this dynamesh model that I made, but I still want the maps so that I can use them elsewhere.
Is this possible? Everywhere I’m reading it says you need a low rez model, but I don’t have one.
Hello @purzedo ,
Displacement and Normal maps are created from the difference between a lower poly version of the mesh and a higher poly one. You cannot create one from a mesh at a single level of resolution because there is no difference to compare.
Additionally, unwrapping for the necessary UVs is better performed on a lower resolution version of the mesh with clean topology.
You will need to create a lower poly version of the mesh, by using ZRemesher or otherwise retopologizing your mesh, subdividing it sufficiently to capture the high res detail and to create a multi res mesh, then projecting the detail from the original mesh onto the new mutli-res mesh using one of the various methods for doing so.
Good luck!