dynamesh question

#1

Hi everyone.
I’m new in Zbrush. I’m following tutorials and watching lectures but I can’t go any further at some point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S04itoW484U&list=PLD25931E71D4C2098
I was following this lecture. At 1:30 of this movie, it shows how to separate a dynamesh according to its polygroup.

Whenever I re-mesh two separated polymesh while ‘group’ option on, zbrush doesn’t work the way it supposed to be.
Here’s the entire process I’ve tried.

1.Bring sphere, ‘Make polymesh 3d’ -> turn it to dynamesh.(resolution 128)

  1. Make polygroup by using ‘Slicecurve’

  2. Remesh by control dragging empty space. I didn’t forget to unmask the mesh first. Group option in Dynamesh in surely on.
    http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y304/bgram1984/05_zps32f25001.jpg

  3. Change to ‘Move’ mode, masking one mesh by Ctrl+LMB clicking on the surface. Dragging out transpose line, then move one mesh.

  4. Zbrush shows a streched mesh like picture.
    http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y304/bgram1984/06_zpsbf1a0310.jpg

I tried to remesh some more times, but the thing I figured out is zbrush is generating some more additional meshes. I tried to move the stretched part, I found there are some more different polygrouped meshes between two meshes.
http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y304/bgram1984/08_zps44975000.jpg

Does anyone knows why is it happening? I tried to google about it, but I couldn’t find any answer or…similar things. So if you know something, please let me know.

#2

Are you remembering to use the Transpose centre circle to drag? Also have you tried using masking instead of Slice Curve?

#3

After I read your reply,
I tried just ‘Mask’ to make polygroup method, but it shows same result.
Also I double checked to use center circle but same result.
Thank you for your opinion.
Maybe I need to send an e-mail to Zbrush official site.
I googled few hours, but I never saw a symptom like this.
For future, if anyone knows something about this, please give me any opinion you think.
Thank you and happy new year. :banghead:

#4

I’ve had a good re-read of your post. It seems like you are doing everything right, I mean the same process works fine for me. The only possible mistakes I think would be if you had failed to click drag on canvas to re-dynamesh, but I think you already paid proper attention to that.

Informerman is a main ZBrush guru here. If he sees this thread he may be able to advise you better than I can. With the Christmas break it is hard to know when he will pass by, so I suggest sending him a PM with a link to this thread. If you are in a hurry to resolve the issue, you could also post on the zbrushcentral forums.

#5

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