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Problem with Dynamesh resolution on certain subtools.

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#1

Hello everyone, I’m posting this as a last resort, as I’ve tried everything I could think of to resolve this issue. Essentially, I’m sculpting a character and my main subtool (the body) is stuck at approximately 1.1 million points. This is a problem because I need to merge and Dynamesh other subtools, like hands and feet, and I don’t want to lose detail. I realize that Dynamesh isn’t meant to go too high, but I can easily reach 5 million points using dynamesh with other subtools, and this is really bothering me.

Dynameshing at 300 resolution or 4000 makes no difference, I always get around 1.1 million. I’ve tried making polymesh 3D, scaling the subtool, decimating, merging, using Dynamesh Master, exporting and re-importing and a few other things and I can’t get the subtool past 1.1 million points.

If anyone knows how to resolve this issue, I’d greatly appreciate it. Any recommendations on things to try would also be appreciated. If at all possible I’d like to avoid having to project onto another mesh.

#2

your mesh is the wrong scale most likely.

go to tool>preview and see if your body mesh fits in there.
If it doesn’t you can simply use tool>deformation>unify
Then see if your dynamesh does what you want.

You can do this to a whole character as well using transpose master to correct the scale of your mesh and dynamesh will probably work the way you want.

hope this helps.

#3

Thank you very much for the suggestion, but sadly my mesh was still stuck at a max of 1.1 million points. However I’ve come to learn a bit more about ZBrush due to this situation. I tried splitting it in half and Dynameshing both parts. They came up to a combined 5 million points, but upon merging them back together and Dynameshing once more, it returned to 1.1 mil. The character I’m sculpting is rather complex and it appears as though Dynamesh has trouble getting a high polycount with complex meshes. I’ll have to sculpt around this fact in the future, or switch to subdivisions faster to avoid losing detail.

Thank you for your time, I definitely learned something new today.