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Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 01:22:55 GMT

Greetings,

I'm new to Substance but have watched a few tutorials and have a basic understanding of it. My question regards the low- mesh version thats exported with the high-mesh version into Substance. My Maya shoe model was only saved as high poly, so can I simply use the Reduce poly option in Maya at 50%, or is there a better method? My understanding is that the low poly version needs to follow the high poly version in tensile density in order for the maps to be properly made, but any other advice is appreciated. Thank you

Re: Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

Abdulla-Qaladzay — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 04:08:54 GMT

Hi @Anonymous

I always work on low poly and use deferment level of smooth preview.

whenever I need a high poly version I will convert smooth mesh preview to polygon .

while you work with low version with smooth preview, you can show the subdivisions to better understanding of the topology

-that way any time you have both "low poly" and "high poly with a few clicks"

Re: Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 15:27:39 GMT

Thanks,
But since I don't have the low poly version, can I use the Poly reduce
option in Maya to create the low poly version? Or is there any other
method?

Re: Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

mspeer — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:02:59 GMT

Hi!

You can use

a) poly Reduce

b) Quad Draw (manual)

c) the "new" Polygon Remesh and Retopologize in Maya 2020

Re: Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:13:39 GMT

Thank you! I used the Poly Reduce at 50% and will bring both into
Substance shortly- I just wanted to find out if there's a better method.
Attached is the current High poly version. My understanding is that the
reduced version has to somewhat follow the high poly in order for the
maps to generate correctly. I'm looking forward to learning Substance!

Re: Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

mspeer — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 21:56:44 GMT

Hi!

No file attached, please ZIP it before upload.