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Unfreezing Subdivison messes up everything

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#1

Weird things happen when I try to unfreeze my subdivision! I worked with Dynamesh on and created my beautiful model while having subdivisions frozen, but when I want to unfreeze it it spoils everything up and my work just goes wasted. What do I do wrong and is it possible to actually save my work and unfreeze it properly? Here, first image is with subdivision frozen on and dynamesh on, second with unfrozen subdivisions it becomes masked for some reason except those parts and then a closer look at spoiled mesh without mask.

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#2

Are you trying to add detail with Frozen Subdivision turned on? Or just making changes to the base mesh?

#3

I had several subdivision levels and when I turned Dynamesh on it asked me to freeze them or delete them. I froze them, mad changes with Dynamesh on and when I click freeze again to unfreeze them it happens. This weird mas appears for some reason and the mesh gets disturbed.

#4

Since you’re making changes to your base (using dynamesh) then just delete the lower levels and turn on dynamesh. Freezing and unFreezing is to make changes to your base model and getting your high detail back. Since you turn on Dynamesh you’re drastically changing your topology which can cause a lot of issues when you unfreeze.

Don’t forget to make a copy first in case you need to go back.

#5

yeah I kinda had to figure out that in case of dynameshing I need to get rid of all subdivisions first and leave a copy for projection
btw I managed to make it right after some struggle
I made a copy which was also frozen, then unfroze an original mesh it got weird as usual then I subdivided it a bit and projected a frozen high quality copy on this weid new mesh. Some weirdness went away so I took a smooth brush and smoothed it all out in those problematic places. Then I projected again and got the exact high detailed copy of a frozen mesh.

#6

This happened to me before and this is what I did:

  1. unfreeze subdivision levels
  2. go to lowest subdivision level
  3. smooth out the difference
  4. rinse and repeat for each subdivision level in order

It takes a little bit of time, but that seemed to help for the most part. I did have to redo a little bit of detail, but not much at all.