Modelling Stage 5.

I've been having problems with one of my models in Zbrush, I managed to import my basic mesh in to zbrush, that went ok, but when it came to exporting back out after sculpting, it wasnt working. The problem occurs when importing the high res mesh in to Maya, it just doesn't show; I looked at all the display settings in Maya and everything was ticked. I ended up spending the whole of Friday 12th February trying to figure this out. I made up to 10 different obj and Maya Ascii files to try and sort this problem out, trying to figure out where the problem is- is it in Maya or is it in Zbrush? Each attempt yielded the same results- an invisible mesh.

I also looked on the Pixologic site to see if they has an obj export plugin so that I could re-install it- unfortunately nothing is there. There isn't anything in the help forums. I also looked for any other results from Google and nothing was there, which led me to submitting my problem through the Pixologic support area where the staff will answer your questions.

I also looked at a book I got called Essential Zbrush by Wayne Robson. Nothing.

I thought it could be something indiginous to the Mac version. So I sent it to Fahran to see if he could open it in Maya, here's his reply:

Right, I loaded the tool in zbrush, was fine, exported it as OBJ (145mb file size). May struggled to open it, but eventually did...and nothing appears. The polycount showed the model was there, so did the outliner...but no sign of it at all in the viewport. I tried to render..nothing showed...tried to scale...nothing happened.

The main reason why I didn't give up was because this is one of my favourite sculptures so far and I spent the whole day of Thursday sculpting this and now I can't use it, which really annoys me and I don't want to have to re-do it.

Self-Evaluation.
I think what I should do next time is be less precious over my work, as this is becoming a common thing for me- not letting go and this wastes time that could be used to recover from the situation(s) at hand. On the positive side, I thought it was good that I was using my problem solving skills to try and figure this out and I thought outside the box and I tried every method I could think of.

I've had an idea that might work, use an earlier file and see if I can work from there, I intend on putting the results in my next post.