Instant Meshes -- Must Have Free 3D Retopology Tool 

Is "gamefromscratch.com/../Creating-3D-Models-From-Photos-Using-Meshroom" link is right for this video?

Can it be used to simplify multiple objects in one mesh, as in can I simplify the hair of my character without effecting the clothing & so on

is there a way to not just draw a line, instead a circle for the retopo to follow (like that of zremesher)?

I don't think instant meshes is a retopology tool, rather a quadrangulation tool

Cool 7:10 the feature I was looking for If not for this software I would'v made my own retopology add-on that makes topology by drawing into the surface of the mesh

ZBrush and 3D Coat have had this for years. Maybe they got it from Instant Meshes, I dunno.

Hehe I know that feeling

Don't become gay but 😂

F' th'y m'sh's? Yarr!

Fatest Rat it should work once you turn them into polys. just turn your point cloud into a mesh first using photogrammetry tools or something else(maybe even Blender can do this, I’ve never tried though).

I feel like it'll be a hassle to get the topology for facial animation but it should be possible.

Vector paint

I think you can bake the diffuse from the high-poly version to the new low poly version in blender

Why would you remesh hard surface

Is it better than Mudbox retopology tools?

Probably have to either adjust your config of the plugin, or manually fill the holes by selecting the surrounding vertices (no more than 4 at a time) and hitting F to fill. Then when you're done filling, hit W (still in edit mode) and *remove doubles.* This will automatically merge any vertices that weren't connected to create continuous edge loops.

Generally you're not using retopo with a mesh that has uvs. If you do you can do a world uv transfer in software like Maya. I think Blender can do it as well. It's not sure fire but if the meshes are close enough to each other it'll get you part way there.

yeah just use the automatic uv projection

Seperate the meshes

@@ozotto7527 so simple yet so overlooked LOL

Blender can import many formats, so I don't think why not.

and there is your prob anyhtign daz makes is bad software he never updates other toolsuites

@@chronosschiron I use DAZ Studio for most of my 3D art, but I do have and use many other resources, and sometimes I use them together for one project. PD Howler has only recently (within the last 2 or 3 years) gotten into the 3D world. It started out as a strictly 2D application. So the 3D things it does will be limited at best.

@@l.clevelandmajor9931 i lookeda t it its such a mess to learn ....and there are far more easy softwares in fact i shocked an old bryce 7.1 dev that i found a way to wrap a texture around a sphere to make a planet , add a bit a noise where it joins and wella about all i use daz stuff for is import drop texture to see what a model can look like quick ( for free ones) .....ive gone to blender cause its free...and has a ton of videos and support...i do have daz studio but its very expensive if you have to do commercial stuff with any thing unless your makng models

i use the other tool this guy mentions to take STL files to obj files then i put them together and group or rig for animating

Yes, Meshroom, check the 3rd link.

you have to type .obj at the end of the file name

you can easily do that in blender

Never have I related so heavily 🤣😭

Yeah I did, very early in the channel as part of the GD Toolbox series.

@@gamefromscratch Yes, I figured it was about a month or so ago. Because I recently installed this tool and tested it after that video. Thanks for the clarification.

Can the software bake? The video is about the software not about baking in Substance or w.e.

@@DarkerCry No, it cant bake but its used to create a low poly mesh to bake to. I guess i'm just pointing out that those last 3 minutes could have been used better to show the benefits of baking to a mesh created with instant mesh.

@@pwalders That's true but he generally just shows what the software can do and doesn't expand too much into workflow all too often. He's not really a strong 3D guy so I wouldn't expect him to go into 3 minute talk about baking with other software.

Retopo algorithms by nature do not address combining of separate mesh bodies. Use MeshMixer's Make Solid command to make a single connected mesh first, and then retopologize.

I am talking from a creation perspective. The engine or export process will ultimately handle the tessellation. Nicest thing about quads... Easy to turn into triangles. The inverse isn't so true.

Actually what he said is correct, quads deform nicely with bones, triangles not so nicely, singularities very horribly. That's the main reason 3d editing software (well that and other things like loop cuts) use quads even though triangles are easily available to those too. So yes, triangles look perfectly fine on a static mesh, and the quads will render as 2 triangles. But as soon as your looking at skinned meshes you want to have nice quad topology, and push any singularities that occur (often does while modelling faces for instance) out to a point which won't deform from any of the bone movements. Partially related video about it, more about Zbrush than the issue but I couldn't be bothered to look further: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ips3GhWI0s.html

@@Sylfa quads are just illusions internally it's still triangles quads just hide to triangulated detail just saying

​@@techgo4431 Let me just quote a genius: "and the quads will render as 2 triangles" Of course they will render as triangles, being the 3d simplex shape it's the easiest form to render. But that doesn't change the fact that arbitrary triangles deform anywhere from poorly to horribly. Ordering them properly in quads makes for smooth deformation. Feel free to ignore this and make your meshes triangles, I don't mind if you have to fiddle around for hours to get an elbow to bend right, just don't try to convince anyone else you don't need quads for animation and rigging. PS the quote was from my post you replied to...

@@Sylfa oh I just thought you didn't know quads are still internally triangles a misunderstanding on my part

kinda right, it just creates those weird qaud poligons that connects non-looped quads

Nothing beats Zremesher

Say sike rn

thank god for the playback speed tool