[Topogun] How do I utilize this tool more effectively?

MBauer17

I'm trying to make use of Topogun but I feel very clumsy and slow with it. Just using the basic settings leads to a lot of going back and reworking vertexes. The first .gif is me struggling and the second one is by a professional. What should I be doing to utilize Topogun more effciently?



Click. Click. Click. Poly. Select new vertex. Click. Click. Click. Poly. Select new vertex. 



Click. Poly.  Click. Poly.   Click. Poly.  

gavku

https://vimeo.com/topogun

GreyJke

Personally i switched to Maya quad draw as my retopo tool, because further development of topogun is probably dead. But whatever software you use try to draw as few polygons as possible and then add edge loops, don`t draw every single polygon.

pior

You need to enable the "make face" tickbox while in edit mode. Once that is done, click-dragging away from verts will create new quads in one action.

It doesn't matter one bit that Topogun has not been getting an update lately. The age doesn't matter - it's still one of the best tool available for that kind of stuff. Combining it with the retopo tools natively available in Max/Maya/Blender is probably the best thing one can do.