11 replies to this topic

[Andrew Shpagin]

I have made retopo tool tutorial. You can find it there:

www.3d-coat.com/tutorials/Retopo/retopology.htm

Offline version:

www.3d-coat.com/tutorials/Retopo/retopology.zip

[rimasson]

thanks for this tuto. i discovered a few things.

[demether]

Yes good tuto
thank you very much andrew
if you could do one (i know your time is precious) for uv-set manager it will be great too (for me though)
cause i feel very confused with managing multi uv-set on a human for ex (uv for head, one for body etc...)

so if you please then thanks a lot

[StereoMike]

Thanks Andrew!
But I find it hard to follow, cause there are not enough break points or pauses (where you have to click the green arrow). Often a yellow textbox appears and before I can read it it disappears. You also can't pause the player to read it.
Can you add more pauses?

Thanks,
mike

[Frenchy Pilou]

Often a yellow textbox appears and before I can read it it disappears

Curious that works fine for me!

[wailingmonkey]

Andrew,

Thanks for sharing that! (think my two favorite tools are 'add points and faces' and 'draw
strokes' (makes re-topo on arms and legs a breeze!).


StereoMike,

Just use the play/pause button instead of clicking the arrow, and you can control where
you want to stop (to read). You can also 'scrub' through as you would with a quicktime
video as well.

[JULEZ4001]

On the wold tutorial , when you showing how ot use the draw stroke tool on the arm where it makes the mesh wrapped around the arm..when I duplicate the demo, i just get a strip of mesh and not the whole "bracelet".
Am i doing something wrong?

[Andrew Shpagin]

On the wold tutorial , when you showing how ot use the draw stroke tool on the arm where it makes the mesh wrapped around the arm..when I duplicate the demo, i just get a strip of mesh and not the whole "bracelet".
Am i doing something wrong?

Please show screenshot of what you getting.
Are you painting only one line across slices and press enter?

[Hroethbert]

Is there any way to position an imported 'external mesh' as a whole for a better fit when retopolising?

I was experimenting with this feature by trying to retopolise the 3DC standard head (man2.obj) with a mesh of a male head that I have, the imported mesh was never centred on reference mesh, only a couple of polys where attached to the reference.

(edit: added attachment)

Attached Thumbnails

• 

[Andrew Shpagin]

Is there any way to position an imported 'external mesh' as a whole for a better fit when retopolising?

I was experimenting with this feature by trying to retopolise the 3DC standard head (man2.obj) with a mesh of a male head that I have, the imported mesh was never centred on reference mesh, only a couple of polys where attached to the reference.

(edit: added attachment)

No, there is no such possibility... Not sure that it is easy, but I will think how to do this.

[Hroethbert]

... Not sure that it is easy, but I will think how to do this.

Hhhm...I guess that means that you will have it done by dinner tomorrow evening. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[theSemple]

Hello total newbie user here following the excellent tutorial for retopo. I can't seem to figure out when I use the split poly tool how to disengage it. Meaning when I'm done with the operation I hit enter but I'm still in the mode. How to I "finish"? For now I just choose another tool but I can see that creates problems when I go back to split polygon again. I prefer the ring split tool but that's not always the answer.

Love 3DC can't wait to finish the tech burn-in so I can start creating amazing art with it.

Found my own answer, the esc key seems to work just fine.

LOVE the draw strokes tool and tweak with brush softening tools. I build a lot of complex branching trees and these tools are wonderful.

on to more learning...