Noob questions about retopology

SuperFranky

Just started to wrap my head around the whole retopo thing and have a few noobish question Any help will be appreciated.

What are some general tips and theory behind retopologizing a highres model to a game-ready mesh?
What are differences between retoping clothing, organic and hard surface?
What needs to be retopo'ed together and what separate?
What to think about when doing retopo work etc?

SuperFranky

bump, still looking for tips

Popol

It's quite hard to answer your questions as there is dozen of valid way to retopo an object depending on many different factors. That's the kind of thing you learn by practicing, like most stuff in video game art.

Just a few tips :

- Look at the wires of lowpoly models made by more experienced artists
- Think in term of silhouette. If a poly doesn't affect the silhouette, remove it, it's useless.
- Check the wiki for organic retopo : http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryTopology?highlight=%28\bCategoryCharacter\b%29

But as I've already said, the best way to learn that kind of stuff is to try and fail over and over.

SuperFranky

Thanks, that makes sense Gotta practice more then.