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Decimation master --> normals --> 3dsmax

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#1

Hi everybody,

I've read about normal mapping and 3dsmax and other things, but seems I can't find the right information for my case. Suppose I've a finished model in Zbrush, it's decimated to an acceptable quantity of polys. Then I want to bring it to 3dsmax, but I HAVE NOT ANY LOW RES of this model, cause I've started sculpting and forget saving a low poly version as .obj at the beginning. Well, I can export the this finished, decimated, model to .obj and import into 3dsmax. But, what if I want to further reduce the poly count in 3dsmax, by using normal mapping? Do you have any ideas on how to do that? I read tutorials, but they seem to suppose that you ALREADY HAVE A LOW POLY MODEL TO PROJECT THE NORMAL MAPS ON IT, and I don't have it : S I thought, maybe I can decimate to 1%, and then use that as a base for projecting normal maps? I guess it would be a mess, is any better way to do that?

Thanks everybody

#2

Have you considered simply retopologising using the retopo tools? Qremesher is an option now too if you don’t want to take the time to do it yourself. I could be wrong but this seems like the best (if not only) option if you don’t have a low poly version to work with.