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Zbrush 4 Retopo Problems (answered)

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#1

Hello,

I have been trying to retopo a character using the retopology tool in Zbrush 4, but I can see my retopo mesh underneath my character. As a result, when I add new points, they sometimes connect to the mesh on the other side.

I have tried to hide the retopology on the other side of the mesh (ctrl-shift and drag over selection), but it crashes Zbrush 4.

I am pleased that Pixologic improved the retopo tool (inconsistent snapping to points and missing faces), but it seems to now have a few new problems.

Are there any work a rounds or fixes for these retopo problems?

Thanks,

#2

Yes, I am doing that too and I was thinking that if I could adjust the opacity of the subtool being retopologized, the new points might not go to other points on the other side so easily.
I looked in preferences to see if I could adjust the opacity but I couldn’t find anything. Now I see lines mostly and it gets difficult to stay organized.

Can we adjust the opacity of the subtool being retopologized?

#3

Hi,

got the same problem. Still no fix in sight…

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=92166

bye e

#4

yikes! This takes forever to work like this. A really large portion of my job involves retopologizing, this may be a deal breaker for Z4 for me until this is fixed unfortunately. I can retopologize with a quickness in the past versions. :slight_smile:

#5

Hello,

The crashing only seems to occur on dense meshes (3 or 4 divisions). If you retopo a simple sphere and try to hide a portion of the retopologized mesh, it hides the retopo work and does not crash.

#6

Hi,

for those who havn´t seen, the problem has been solved:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=92166

bye e

#7

Thanks elektro,
It will be helpfull and give us another way to draw a new topology.

But there is always a bug (in my opinion) when you want to use the traditional method
>> rigging -> Select mesh … Topology/Edit Topology

Maybe a new patch soon ?

#8

Cool! Thanks for the link.

#9

Thank you very much elektro for the link! It looks like this method offers other benefits to retopologizing in addition to the fix. Thanks.

#10

Your welcome :smiley:

The credit goes to grfx.

bye e

#11

I fixed this!

Go into Preferences/Draw and change the Front Opacity Slider value to 1. Makes it work like it used to.

#12

Extra Dimensional- YES! That is a quicker way for me, thanks for figuring it out.

#13

Yes, it’s good
Thanks Extra Dimensional

#14

Thanks Extra Dimensional! I did not know you could adjust the opacity. Cool!

#15

Extra Dimensional-thanks god ! you saved me ! I think your approach should be the best solution,thank you very much!!

#16

but I can still select the point on the other side. thats annoying.

#17

Originally posted by Volbeat:

but I can still select the point on the other side. thats annoying.

Try these settings in Preferences > Draw submenu.

Front Opacity 0.95
Back Opacity 0.01

#18

Use 3d-coat

#19

it still snaps but it doesnt draw the line through the mesh! ok. thx

#20

hello everyone, i have a problem when retoping my model. on the picture you can see i can’t connect those two vertices (zspheres), but when i move them much closer to each other, the edge is creating… and it is over all the mesh, like i have a limit in distance between 2 vertices… like 10 px or so, i changed the settings for radius in preferences->zsphere, but nothing actually helped. any ideas? thanks…
so idea is that i can retop like very tiny wireframe, but when i want less quads in my low poly (bigger wireframe), i can’t do that.

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