Maya/ZBrush Skeletal Mesh Workflow?

[anonymous_user_e815e8ea]

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You don’t have to worry about skeletons, blend shapes or UVs for the sculpted version, you will use a material to add the normal map baked from the sculpted high poly mesh to your low poly mesh in UE4. The skeleton and blend shapes should only be needed on the low poly mesh. You will need to set up the UVs on the low poly mesh so you’ve got something you can bake into, then load both meshes and bake from the high poly mesh to the low poly mesh, whatever textures you need. Usually normal and ambient occlusion.

I’m assuming you’re sculpting to add details though, is this right or are you just sculpting the mesh and want to keep the same vertex count? I don’t really know if that’s what you usually do in Zbrush but it’s possible in Blender so I guess it should be in Zbrush too.

OOOOHH, I see. I use ZBrush mostly to add details but every once in a while I do actually want to sculpt the mesh, what should I do in this case?

Thanks again for helping me out, I actually understand now :rolleyes: