I gave the compound a test run on a 10 Million plus, polygon mesh. It is unusable. For lighter meshes it probably works faster (under 2 million), then again you are re-topping a mesh too much if you go that route, and eventually you break the 2 million polygon route barrier and the tool is useless.
It is a step, more optimization has to go into this compound, consider the resources that Softimage uses alone and combining that with what this tool needs, then optimize, not a simple task. If you need a retopology tool and you are working with other sculpting tools, not including ZBrush, Mud or 3D Coat this is a good addition, otherwise most of the other tools have built in re-toping tools. That is my little review, probably share this tool on my blog
Retopo Tools
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Curve Retopo Tool
a prototype of curve based retopo tool, it's rough because user should make some adjustments
since it's not that precise but it does what it says [..] Requirements: Tested on Softimage 2012 SP1 x64 and Softimage 2013 x64. Installation: 1. Drag-n-drop *.xsiaddon file into the viewport, refresh the compounds list or restart
Softimage 2. Install Byungchul Kang's CnD_NormalizedCurve addon Usage: Select the mesh, go to View -> Toolbars -> Retopo Tools, click on "Initialize" button
and enable Sketch curve tool (Model -> Curve -> Sketch)
local backup: Retopo_Tools.xsiaddon
local backup: Retopo_Tools.xsiaddon
author site: http://procedural.tumblr.com / si-community thread
Re: Retopo Tools
...still pressin' F5 over here ...any news?
Re: Retopo Tools
Requirements from the first post are updated.
Re: Retopo Tools
Hello,
Really nice plugin, thank you !
A question about retopo : is there a way to snap a selection of edges to a surface (without Shrink Warp). Actually, when I snap a selection of edges to a face only the center of selection is constrain to the mesh surface... Would be nice to have this option in the snap preferences. I do not like Shrink Warp because the results are sometime weird, and it take some time to activate it and tweak it.
Regards,
Really nice plugin, thank you !
A question about retopo : is there a way to snap a selection of edges to a surface (without Shrink Warp). Actually, when I snap a selection of edges to a face only the center of selection is constrain to the mesh surface... Would be nice to have this option in the snap preferences. I do not like Shrink Warp because the results are sometime weird, and it take some time to activate it and tweak it.
Regards,
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