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Resym part of a mesh? and other various question

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#1

Hi everyone,

I am working on a character that is going through a revision process. The character has an asymmetric head, but the arms are symetric. During a recent revision I worked on a hand on only 1 side of the mesh, I was wondering if there is a way to smartresym just this part of the mesh?
Also I am going to retopo this character (outside of zbrush-3ds max) and am going to add a pouch for the inside of the mouth, can I re-project details from the original sculpt onto the new polymodel even though it will have this additional geometry?

Thanks for any help!

Todd

#2

  1. Mask off everything apart from the hand you want to update.

  2. Yes. You’ll need to make the mouth pouch into a polygroup so you can hide or mask it while you project, or else store a morph target and fix it afterwards.

#3

Yes you can Smart Resym certain parts of your model by masking the off the parts you don’t want to change. Apply a mask to the center line as usual and after that mask off the head, click smart resym and you should be ok.

Concerning your retopo, i would import the mouth interior as a seperate subtool and merge it via the Subtool Master. Like this you won’t loose your Subdivision levels. But honestly, for best results i would do the retopo within ZB, to have full projection control.

Hope that helps.

#4

thanks for the quick and helpful responses guys! :+1: I’ll let you know how I make out.

Todd