Retopo is gone... it needs to come back!

Edit: Hi everyone I just noticed that Youtube has stuck an add on this video. While I would probably consider putting adds on my videos in the future if I were a successful youtuber (something thats very far away if you look at my video views ;p ) I did not put it on this one. Apparently it's in the fine print of using the AudioSwap feature which I only employed to save me the time of downloading some stock music for the background. Anyway, I apologize that an add is showing up on this video. Believe me it's inclusion was unintentional and I wish I knew how to take it off while keeping a bit of a a bg track to prevent the horrific silence of those quite blender vids.

Sorry guys, no on with the original description:

Starting to use Blender 2.5 to get work done instead of 2.49 and I found that one of my most used tools has been removed. People keep telling me that using either snap to surface or the shrinkwrap modifier do the job just as well.

They don't and this video is my demonstration of why that is.

(I know I normally just upload vlogs and such to this channel and I know that very few people are going to have any interest in this video but puting it here is the easiest way I know to host a video online...)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• blender
• 3d
• retopo
• removal
• fail

[theonlyreallaz]

thanks for pointing out that the unwanted advertising is due to the audioswap,it's very disappointing on my short videos cause you've not even the time to close the ad to view the video,now I will never use again the audioswap!

About the retopology it would be great to have 3Dcoat's AUTOretopology in every 3D program !

[rorkimaru]

@theonlyreallaz That Autoretopology tool isn't really all that great. You get much much better results doing it manually and with a combination of traditional methods and the grease pencil retopology extension in newer blender versions you're not even sacrificing much time.

algorithms to nicely retopologise anything more than a complex surface are still a way away if they are even possible.

[putthisonmytab]

how long did that character model take you?

[rorkimaru]

@putthisonmytab bout 30 seconds, it's a makehuman export ;)

[SonicSanctuary]

would everyone stop using that fucking song

[LittleBigWig]

why does everyone on youtube use the same music, it makes the video not watchable

[BinaryForces]

GET UR MUTE ON kids

[theonlyreallaz]

@rorkimaru

I'm against all the unnecessary suffering,the computer MUST compute,it's what I've paid it for!

Look at this and think about what you could have done in all the hours you've spent swearing on a character rig !

TRIPLEWmit.edu/~ibaran/autorig­/pinocchio.html

[theonlyreallaz]

@rorkimaru I agree with you,it's like speech recognition or autorigging,I hope to live long enough to see them working perfectly.

Anyway you can use both the old way and the new and it's still a way to use your time in a better way :

watch?v=OGukWcM3Ggs

[rorkimaru]

@GhostInTheBASH I think it's been fixed since 2.55. The thing is when I made this it wasn't working well at all and the official solution was use extrude or a hacky move and replace thing.

It's grand now though, fortunately. Loosing useful features isn't something I like to see in software.

[GhostInTheBASH]

@rorkimaru its the magnet! ;) "snap during transform" turn it on, hold CTRL and then when you hit LMB in vert mode it creates the vert on the surface. i just found out ;) (using 2.57b)