Marvelous, Maya and ZBrush Workflow 2022 - Quickest Clean Method 

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in final animation software, usually after the sim

Another issue I find is a reconstructed mesh removes retopo details such as holding edges etc...and that I still need to tweak afterwards. I don't know if I'm confusing this with my current workflow. Still, I think your method is efficient for concept sculpt etc...

Hi Gip, thanks you for sharing. Correct, the re-projection method in ZBrush often caused me artefacts so this is a way around it and it is also quicker and it's closer to the original mesh

Hi what do you do in zbrush though? I always seem to lose the UVs whenever I do work in zbrush!

Maybe I can help, It can be easier to add thickness after you have transfered the vertex positions to the subdivided mesh with good topology. You can do so with an extrude on the object, and increasing the Z Thickness (remember to freeze transform, delete history and , if there are still issues, Unlock Normals). Both sides of the thick mesh will now have overlapping uvs, so you should make uv cuts along the thickness of each clothing part. After that you will be able to take the uvs of one side and place them in a different UDIM or just another place in 0-1 space so they don't overlap anymore, which is necessary if you want to bake textures with this model.

Hi, you select the retopologized mesh in the simulation window and then export selected mesh

For this workflow you would need Maya, maybe 3ds max has a similar tool.. But if you're not too worried about topology and clean up (merge vertices and stuff) there are other workflows where you don't need maya or 3dsmax

Oh interesting, is there any particular reason why you prefer that method? So, correct me if I'm wrong: you would bring the marvelous clothing you've made in Zbrush, zremesh it, bring it back in Marvelous, and retopologize again? That might lose you some details you might have had before (like if you've used internal lines), you would lose the uvs as well which can be quite handy for sculpting (by using polygons), then you would have to go through the process of projecting the higher poly anyway?

@@dr8518 ok so hear me out. i export 2 entities from marvelous. 1. the simulated garment with all the detail. 2. the garment in its flat form (Reset Pattern to 2D arrangement) Now i bring the flat garment file into zbrush and Zremesh it. This flat garments share the same UVs with the simulated garment that we need to achieve. after zremeshing the flat garment patterns to a low enough topology, with a few click, i take it to Maya. this takes a minute hardly. in MAYA, i have 3 files. 1. the actual 3D simulated cloth from MD 2. The original Flat export from MD 3. The Zremesh file i just exported from Zbrush into MAYA. now, i transfer the UVs of the flat garment onto the Zremeshed one. now the zremeshed flat garments and the actual 3D cloth file share the same UVs. after that i transfer the flat Zremeshed file onto the simulated 3D garment, to take its shape and subdivide and transfer again unless i have all the details. this entire process takes about 15-20 mins. saves me from the hassle of retopologizing the entire pattern

@@zozobra226 Oh I see, that's a really good method too, the issue that I found by retopologizing in zbrush is that you won't get the same amount of edges where you are going to merge the patterns, of course you can correct it later as you said in Maya but I personally find it easier to retopologize in Marvelous because you can manually create the exact topology you want and fit the right amount of vertices and have an immediate feedback of where those bordering vertices are. It's an improvement for me but I understand that method might work better for others, personally after trying both I feel it works best for me.

@@zozobra226 do you know a video that shows this process?

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Hahaha omg I cannot unsee it now!