#MAYA 2022 RETOPOLOGY MOVIE#

I really appreciate Topogun's abilities and it has helped us out in many though jobs, but it needs to cover a few more bases to become better at what it does.įor example does it have freely movable lights by now? Can I put and manually UV edit a custom texture - actual concept art - on top of a simple reference model to create a guide for more complex retopo work? Handle multiple objects easily? the other tools and environment aren't up to the level that you'd get with a fully rounded 3D app equipped to handle the wrapping part hence my move to Wrapit. the sketching stuff is good for lowres, simple stuff but games are moving beyond that very faaast

#MAYA 2022 RETOPOLOGY MOVIE#

Yeah Varg, I know that you deal with movie stuff, buts its quite a misunderstanding to think that Topogun and such apps do 'draw your topology with freehand strokes' stuff only.Īgain, I've been a beta tester for years, probably for as long as you've known about the app or maybe even more, I consider myself familiar with it. How fast are you working in that retopo video you just posted ? Do you have any shortcut recommendations I could try ? It seems to me that the added benefit of re topology in your native app is that you can use primitives (shrinkwrapped or live) to speed up creation aswell as the standard range of poly modelling tools. When working in it I found that I created a good deal of additional edges that I didnt want, but I have put that down to not being used to the control scheme. I also want to use the brush selection to move groups of verts but was unable ? is it possible to do this ? I think I might be missing some of the optimal workflow here and I would truly like to understand. Pior I have been trying topogun and found it frustrating that I had to switch back and forth between simple edit and simple create (I think those are the names?) It seems I have to click multiple verts before I can drag an new edge out and even then I have to shift click one of the new edges to define it as a quad? Blergh!Īnyone interested in a real-life topogun tut letme know. here again, someone is missing something! Nex seems great on paper, but quadraw is unable to close tris, forcing the user the exit nex mode, fill in the gaps, then go to nex again. One of those things hard to explain on paper, you really just got to try it!Īs another example : if someone you work with uses nex for retopo. But once you assign your shortcuts properly (I use only a few, since all the rest is smartly click-drag driven) it's very impressive. Sure it's quite a paradigm shift since TG doesnt really flow like a regular 3D program does. But see all these tools ? Cuts, edge redirection and all that.

Sure its a very rough test model and a very lowpoly retopo. It's what impresses the layman audience, for sure, but it really isnt the core of the program. Yeah Varg, I know that you deal with movie stuff, buts its quite a misunderstanding to think that Topogun and such apps do 'draw your topology with freehand strokes' stuff only.

Maya 2022 retopology