Low Rez To High Rez

[futurcraft]

Check this earlier thread.... I had a similar doubt which I resolved myself

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=418836

[ussmc]

Assuming you have already skinned the lowRes model. Duplicate it, add it to a layer.
Select the other one and just smooth it out. Add it to another layer. There's no need to skin the hiRes model. So you should have 2 layers, one for the lowRes and one for the hiRes. Turn 'hiRes' layer visibility off when animating etc.

Just to let you know that I like to use nurbs as the lowRes. The model doesn't have to be perfect and the playback animation is faster than polygons.

[yenvalmar]

you have to have the duplicate input connections option on when you duplicate the low res mesh.. so that it still deforms the duplicate. other wise you just have a totally unrigged copy of your mesh, which isnt gonna really help you.

but yes, this is a good workflow, very simple :)

another option which i like is to simply apply a poly smooth to my base rigged mesh (assuming like 99% of character modellers you are using polys to model the char), then connect the divisions level to a custom attribute i add to a control in my rig with the connection editor, so i dont need duplicate copies of all the meshes, as for very complex characters with a base mesh thats 30 mb already this makes the files huge. this takes more work to rig up however, and wont accomidate changes to the base mesh very nicely at all.. so i do it at the very end of the rig process.

this is what futurcraft was talking about also i beleive.

[futurcraft]

Yeah.. thats exactly what i meant... the poly smooth function...

[ramdas]

Thanks for the help

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