[Bf-committers] GSoC 2011 Proposal: Retopology Tools

[Jonathan Williamson]

Hey Alice, 

I actually have a couple more suggestions for you in regards to the tool functionality.


Pen Tool
I feel it should not be restricted to only creating quads. Even as the topology snob that I am, occasionally it is necessary to use triangles. This is particularly true in lowpoly meshes where deformation is not a problem. When creating very lowpoly meshes it's almost essential to use triangles.

Slice Tool
The slice tool you have proposed is almost identical to the old knife tool, which while important, I don't feel makes sense to be part of this project. This is mostly because Joe Edgar as already implemented the beginnings of a very good knife tool alongside BMesh. It's my feeling that any retopo tools you develop should be designed to work with the future BMesh. Since Joe has already developed this I feel it would be overkill for this project.

The Slice tool that I was actually referring to in my original suggestion was this one: http://3d-coat.com/uploads/pics/rtp_slices.gif

What it does is allows you to quickly draw several guides across a tubular section of your mesh and automatically generate a encapsulating mesh that snaps to the surface. 

This method is very quick and powerful for retopo'ing anything from arms, legs, treebanchs and other tubular forms. Perhaps the tool should be renamed to Guide Strokes. 

Other than those couple things everything looks great for the functionality!

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On Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Alice Li wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been working on my GSoC 2011 proposal for the last few days for adding
> new retopology tools. If anyone could give me any kind of feed back before I
> submit it I would really appreciate it, is it detailed enough? Feasibility?
> Too long? Too short?? etc. A really big thanks to Jonathan Williamson,
> Nicholas Bishop and LetterRip for their help these past couple of days.
> 
> Link: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Lynseed
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Alice
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