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heyas guys; i didn't like the results i was getting from AUTOPO, so i started retpologizing by hand. a good learning experience. :X i have a model that is made up of repeating elements (holes through a bar). so i thought i would build one segment, and then copy that segment where the other holes are. even smarter, i thought i would build 1/4 of the segment, then mirror the top to bottom, the front to back, and then the side to side, to get the whole piece. i have discovered clone. and i scaled the clone of the first 1/4 to -100% to get a vertically mirrored copy. the edges aren't perfectly straight, and the bottom edge of the top piece is overlapping the top edge of the bottom piece. even if i merge the two retopo groups together. so: how do i weld vertices? or how do i weld chunks of retopo to each other... without drawing more polygons between them? i got the vertices all into alignment with the transform tool. but the two pieces still think they are separate. they're all one retopo group, just... two different colours. :/

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heyas guys! i'm so happy, i've just completed my first model in 3d coat! now i need to retopologize it. and, of course, i have a problem. first, i tried autopo. and it made ugly, clunky retopo mesh. didn't like that. so then i'm following the spider (legs) tutorial ( ).%C2'> when i hit enter... i don't get a nice retopo mesh, i get some chunks hanging out in space. see attached illustration. i do not understand why i am getting this result. notes: for the detail bit on the side... the main voxel layer has the indent subtracted from it. the convex capsules in the indent are on a different voxel layer. i don't know if the retopo is looking at those, or ignoring those, or becoming completely confused by those. i tried raising the number of segments from 12 to 32, and the spline points density from 100 to 295. that did not alter the results at all. i tried drawing only one vertical line (as in the video), but that didn't have the desired effect. instead, there were fewer chunks and more empty space. any guidance as to what i am doing wrong would be appreciated! and... how to do it right, even more so! thanks

I started a thread looking at a possible bug where the object was not allowing me to close up gaps left from Autopo. http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14954 At the end, I was left with 1 Triangle on it's own and am now trying to find a way to get rid of it. The only way I can think to achieve this goal would be to painfully shift the triangle's position from where it is up to the groin area on my model so it' meets with the Triangle from the other side... at which point.. I can merge them together though this will destroy my symmetrical seam that I have right now and isn't ideal. What other way is there to fix such an issue? I am going to try some things and if I get a solution I will upload a video showing how I did it for others. Hopefully someone has already faced this problem before and knows the way to fix it.

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Привет. У меня вопрос на который я не могу самостоятельно найти ответ. Я закинул референс меш для ретопа и в процессе построения новой топологии понял что мне нужно вернуться в ZBrush и кое что подправить, как мне теперь обновить референс меш не теряя при этом уже созданную топологию?

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Hello, I am trying to make 3D models for a game, but I am having problems with autoretopo. This is how it looks like. When I try to retopo with 2000 polycount, at lower polycount it looks even worse. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? - Pascal

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I am very new to 3D-Coat and Zbrush. I started sculpting early this year in 3D-Coat and later added a Zbrush License. I was on the verge of getting Topogun but I have found that the 3D-Coat tools are great and easy to use. For months I had been shy of them. I watched a few tutorials. I am amazed at how easy the quads fall on the High Polly Mesh that I shaped/designed in Poser. These tools are easy to use. I have no idea how I will get the UV's onto the retopo mesh when I am done but I look forward to learning. I really didn't expect to get this small result in just 10 or 15 minutes. It seems I don;t have to know how to use all the tools and can just relpy on a few favorites in the 3D-Coat retopo menu's I plan to upgrade my license from educational to to full in the next few months. Thanks 3D-Coat!!!! I attached a a small humble picture. I am new to modeling and Unity all this fun stuff, For a newbie I am having a great experiencing This retopo will be the version 2.0 of the Unity Game Char for my game that I made, with pain, earlier this year. Robert

Hello all Im new to 3D Coat but have been using 3DS Max for several years, so i have a good understanding of 3D. I can not see the edges faces in retopology on any model i have made so far, "see attached image" Im thinking it something as simple as a setting i have missed or pressed/clicked by mistake, Can anyone help me fix this problem so i can get back to studying the program. Thank you for your time

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Hello, I've quite a few meshes that I need to reduce polygons to. Most of them are furniture. I couldn't really manage to get any good results from Auto-Retopology and I was wondering if you folks have any tips? My guess is that Auto-Retopology is more useful for organic stuff than hard surface.

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Hi! I wanted to share two ideas that may be is to implement (i hope) and that are very very useful. 1. Move tool that does a surface falloff instead of an area falloff. Basically, like a soft selection in modeling packages that go from the picked vertex (center of the brush radius in this case) gradually to the rest of the connected geometry and not to any vertex in its world radius. This is veeeeeeeeeeery useful in situations that, for example, you have to move the lower lip without touching the upper lip that is very close, but not connected. This can be done, of course, with freezing, but the "move connected" aproach would be much faster and direct. Besides, some angles and surfaces can be challenging to freeze without touching the part you want to move, and without leaving a rough difference between the moved part and the frozen one. (I'm sorry if there is this option somewhere, at least I haven't found it). 2. Freeze by ambient occlusion. I was thinking that now that there is voxel painting it may be easy (MAY BE, i don't know) to transfer an ambient occlusion calculation to the voxels color and then transfer it values to what is frozen and what not. This is useful on rare scenarios, but it can speed up the process of freezing the mouth bag, eyes, or any small cavity that we don't want to affect. It is also useful to retain small details and holes while extruding the rest of the surface.

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Hi, I'm very new to 3D Coat and beginning to work through some tutorials. One of the features which attracted me to 3DC was the retopologizing. However, I was wondering how or if it can handle open meshes like pieces of clothing? Also, is it possible to sculpt open meshes - for example, put some wrinkles in a piece of cloth? Thanks.