In a sense, yes!

Now that I have a version with clean topology, I can make UVs for it and generate a normal map that contains the hi-res information in it. I can then export the lowest-res version but retain the detail from the higher subdivision levels by applying the normal map in Maya, Blender, etc. I hope that makes sense!

@@BradGroatman Thanks! You could also decimate and then retopo in 3dCoat, for example, to get clean game/animation ready meshes, then bring back to Zbrush for final work!

You only need to create UVs at the lowest level of subdivision (higher levels don’t change the topology, they just subdivide existing faces, so it stays the same!)

And even though the shape of the mesh changes with the projection, the actual faces are still the same, just “sculpted” by the projection into a more accurate shape.

@@BradGroatman Thank you very much Brad, appreciate it man!

Because back at the high poly level you can sculpt more details that could then be baked out into normal maps or displacement maps that you could apply to the lower-res model in animation, etc. best of both worlds 🙂

this method is also better for sculpting in high detail because its using a lower poly version technically

maybe you want to export the normal/displacements maps from the highest subdivision level and the mesh from the lowest subdivision level? then add the maps to the mesh in the animation/game software so that the high res details are visible but not actually part of the mesh? ..im trying to understand as well

Yep, though ZRemesher is definitely not going to give as clean and exact a topology as you'd want for a game or film model, it's great for at least giving you some lower-res levels to work with!

@@BradGroatman thanks for the help.