High poly to low poly texture transfer. Hoping to confirm/deny these questions

After searching countless forums it seems no one ever gave me the straight answers I was looking for. I have here some things that I've come to assume about the whole process of making a low poly count model look like a high poly count model through texturing.

• The first step seems clear, I need two versions of the same model. One can have unlimited amount of polygons, and the other should meet the low poly limits of my game

• Next I have to unwrap my high poly model. I can texture this as fancy as I want, though I should keep my texture file size reasonable

• I then have to unwrap my low poly model with the same seams as the high poly model

• Now I can line up the sections of UVs from the high poly unwrap to the low poly unwrap, and everything should be dandy.

• Is there a way, say in C4D, to transfer the UVW tag from the high poly to low poly or do both need to be separately unwrapped?

I think I'm getting close, but something about this process seems a bit wonky, I'm hoping someone can take the time to give it to me and other readers all in one shot right here in this thread. Thanks for reading.


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Here's straight as you can get :
Assuming you are working in zBrush

1. Sculpt Awesomeness
2. Retopologize Awesomeness and make a crappy mesh that somewhat resembles awesomeness
3.Unwrap Base Mesh
4.Project High Details of Awesomeness on to Crappyness (Project>Divide and Repeat)
5.Create a normal map/bump and a displacement map
6.Clone maps
7.Export Maps
8.Export .obj mesh
9.Import into a program such as Maya, Cinema etc...
10.Link the maps to the appropriate channels and fix the settings.
11.Render out

Congratulations you win at life. No , but seriously I may have powered through some steps but thats the basic idea

Money is on the money there mate, that's pretty much the easiest way to do it.

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