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zSphere retopology method

Hello!

Hope everyone had a great holidays and happy new year.

I just joined the Zbrush club last month trying to integrate it into my pipeline but I am still very much a newbie at it. I absolutely love what it’s capable of and I am really really trying to make it work for me. The only problem I have with it is, well it seems to crash a lot for me, which is pretty normal apparently.

I recently had a crash today in which I initially believed I had lost all my work. After talking with my programmer, he thinks that I might have my work still, but I just don’t know how to retrieve it. I have several quicksaves as well as a normal save of some retopology work I did with ZSphere -> edit topology -> projection on a high poly model trying to make a low poly version. The steps I took was: Get ZSphere, rig / bind it to a mesh, edit topology, and project it as well as going back and forth hitting A to preview the projection.

Have I done something wrong? Is there a step I need to do to see my work again? There are several quicksave thumbnails that show my work, but upon opening it, all I see is a Zsphere and no other geometry. Same when I open my project file save and tool save.

Thanks for any and all help in this matter! Using ZBrush 4r6 PC on Windows 8.1