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Decimate your model

Decimate your model - ZBrush Tutorial

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Decimate your model

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- [Instructor] Decimation Master is a plug-in in ZBrush that allows you to quickly decimate your model into a lower resolution while maintaining all sculpted details. It is ideally used when you're preparing your model for 3D printing. So let's go ahead and bring up the DemoSoldier from Lightbox. So let's bring Lightbox through comma, and let's click on DemoSoldier. And what I'm going to do is go into the Subtools and basically hide everything else again. So let's Shift-click on the Visibility here, and let's just focus on this guy here. While this guy is selected, let's also increase the amount of points a couple of times. So, right now, if we take a look at the geometry of the DemoSoldier's 32,000, so it's not a whole lot. So let's go and increase that. Let's go in Geometry and divide a couple of times. Let go and do, let's do six, seven levels. So we have 8 million polygons for this guy here. So let's go and basically focus on its head. So let's get closer to its head, like so. I…

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