Adding subdivision levels and transferring detail using ZProject

In this section, you’ll use the new mesh that we just created with ZRemesher and start increasing its resolution so that you can add a lot of detail in Chapter 6. Then we will use the ZProject functionality to transfer detail from the original DynaMesh sculpt to the new mesh.

Subdividing meshes

Subdividing a mesh is an operation that creates four new polygons from each four-sided polygon, and three new polygons from each three-sided polygon, while also creating a new subdivision level.

Here is what subdividing a mesh looks like:

Figure 5.12 – The effect of subdividing a model

You can find the Subdivide option in Tool | Geometry, where you will find the Divide button. By default, Smt (smooth) will be turned on – this means that each time you subdivide your model, all of its polygons will be smoothed out; this is especially useful when working on organic models...