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Dynamic not activating? Sculpturis question as well.

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#1

Good day everyone.

I have a model that I had been using the dynamic subd to sculpt on a non subdivided mesh. It’s been fine, however, somewhere in my process, I believe I tried the Sculpturis to add some detail, and it worked fine. I also know that I zremeshed to give it all a consistent edge flow(that may have been a mistake but I wasn’t sure how to work with sculpturis at this point) However, today I opened up the .ztl and clicked on the Dynamic button and the mesh didn’t change.

So I guess there are a few questions.

  1. Obvious one, did I break it by using Sculpturis and then turning it off?
  2. Why isn't dynamic working now?
  3. Is the proper workflow to just use Sculpturis in Zbrush and leave it on? This part I'm unsure.
  4. If I did use Sculpturis to create small detail, etc, once done, should I leave it on up until it's time to finish it, zremesh, etc? Kind of lost on those steps.
Help! :).
#2

Dynamic works with Sculptris pro but I don’t think it is a good idea because performance and because the geometry of sculptris can be rather dirty.
You occasionally will receive an error message from dynamic subdivision if you try to use it with sculptris because the geometry has problems in the faces.

#3

Thanks for the answer. I understand it better now. I’ve just always been used to using dynamic subd in my workflow,but only AFTER zremeshing the dynameshed model. Thanks!