Retopology A Detailed Guide - What is Retopology & Why Do We Need It? 

Update: I AM STILL RETOPOING. THIS ABSOLUTELY SUCKS.

Update?

Are you still alive?

🙏🙏🙏🙏

RIP 😔😔

well then I'm your Yang

Agreed

It's far more common in the 3D Studio Max world to discuss good topology. One of the keys with it is to model using quads from step 1 and you won't really end up with problems, ie. there is no need to "retopologize" later on. You can also get the mesh as far as you want with low polygon, then clone it and sculp the high poly version from there. It's much cleaner than trying to reduce/decimate a high poly sculpt to get your low poly version.

Thanks

Nice, 🙂👍

Except that we have to paid for that kind of computer monthly you mean😅

That was me moving around the view port with my new 3d controller

both. I'll do a vid at some point

@@grabbitt that would be great 👍

this can be a little bit of a long process which i go into in my character course

I would say so yes but it will help to have an understanding of the basics but you don't need a big course to do that

To give it more structure

i'm not sure i understand the question

@@grabbitt Normally you retopologize by extruding square faces across the model to get the base shape of the mesh. But this is how you did in your plank sculpt tutorial: First you sculpted the plank, called this the High Definition. Duplicated it and called that one Low Definition. Used the Decimate Modifier on the duplicate. Applied modifier. Merged more of it's vertices together to reduce triangles and faces. And that's it. In your video series here Part 3 quick retopology: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m2frF62Zk6c.html

One has much more control than the other

Yes I'm talking about it soon

Not really got anything on that

@@grabbitt thanks.... was having problems with a plane 800mm x 800mm trying to sort a solution thanks grant...kai

Yes retopo

No

@@grabbitt awesome thanks! Also to for the heart!

Not sure what you mean

There is a modifier for subdividing surfaces, right

When we finish retopology, is it ok to subdivide the surfaces

yeah my paypal is in the description :) thanks

@@grabbitt oh my bad missed it!

That's down to the character not the rig often

@@grabbitt If you create simple character and you add the stuff for exemple bag or chest ?

Have'nt played a game for a while but witcher 3 is still my fav

I think it quads but can't remember now

There's frequently a limitation that a game engine mesh vertex buffer for any given drawable must not contain more than 65535 vertices. If you had a mesh of 30k quads, you could be coming dangerously close to touching that boundary, and would need to tiptoe around in editing that you don't cross it. But if you're at half that figure, you don't need to worry too much that the next minor editing operation will suddenly make too many polygons. It's fundamentally possible to make bigger meshes than this count, but they'll take twice as long to transfer to the GPU for the same number of vertices and will take up twice as much VRAM. Generally you want to keep your polycount as low as you can while achieving your visual goals. Micropolygons are bad for performance. Thanks to unified shaders, consider that you have a budget to compute several million pixels + vertices in total, with a little weighting perhaps, so excessive vertex count in millions in total for the scene absolutely will eat into your pixel budget, for one, and for other, rasterisation actually happens in blocks of several pixels per polygon, like 8 or so, and when most pixels in this block aren't occupied by the polygon that is being currently rendered at all, well that's wasted performance. So if your average polygon size as-rendered is smaller than several pixels, the performance can start to fall off a cliff. There is no abstract guideline to how complex a model should be, without considering the type of model and the scene as a whole. Do you have LODs? How many models will be visible? How much screen real estate are each expected to take up? How much overdraw is there? Because ultimately you need to keep not so much perhaps a single model within any given budget, but you predominantly need to keep the complexity of the whole scene to a reasonable level. A scenario with thousands of entities will have different requirements than one with just a dozen. It wouldn't be perhaps too absurd (though maybe still excessive) to see a 1vs1 fighting game dedicate like 300k polys per character, and have them split into like 10 different drawables each, and maybe give 10k polys to the whole environment otherwise.

@@SianaGearz Thanks for the awesome reply, that explains a lot =)

You can still use the detail from the high poly in a normal map

so you can bake the high poly maps to the low poly model ..easily and you cant sculpt a low poly model 😂

Links are in the description. My courses so still have a discount but not as much as over that weekend

Ok thanx

It's just a practice thing

I dont want to be annoying. But I have so many questions. Is there a Place where I can ask them. Its more about how to do stuff..@@grabbitt

try the different forums and discord servers :)

maybe wait to find out about the automated tools in the next video

Views were very low and I think there was enough for people to compete it now on their own

@@grabbitt oh ok

literally everyone over the age of 12 knows that movie

you are indeed :)

It’s rhetorical questions.