This week has been something of a depressing week. I’ve used most of my time this week trying to figure out why Zbrush was doing weird stuff with the geometry when I subdivide. This process can be seen in my images, s4f1 – f4 .jpgs.

This week, F3 has the original geometry that I was working through the divide levels as normal – as I’m coming to understand how everything works, then F4 happens… Play particular attention to what appears to be the random triangulation on the upper ridge and lower ridges of the helmet – where the armor edges are going to go… What is happening? I have no idea. The largest frustration that I found with this software is that this happens randomly, I reopened the file this morning and everything divided just fine…. *Scratches head

I’ve learned a long time ago that computer software will do what IT WANTS, however I had no idea that something as simple (in the loosest terms) as dividing a poly would produce such unwanted results. Now I know, I should have tried to reopen the file and try again, but I thought the geometry did something weird or it was something that I did, so I spent most of my time trying to figure out what I did wrong – If only I knew what was really happening sometimes… haha.

Last week, F1 has my original geometry before the divide and F2 has the geometry unzipping… just like a zipper. – This happened last week the largest problem is that it is cumulative meaning that the geometry gets further and further away every time I divide, I thought it would be interesting to show you.