Maya to Substance workflow and creating low poly version for exporting

[Anonymous]

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

[Abdulla-Qaladzay]

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" 

[Anonymous]

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?

[mspeer]

Hi!

You can use

a) poly Reduce

b) Quad Draw (manual)

or

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

[Anonymous]

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!

[mspeer]

Hi!

No file attached, please ZIP it before upload.