Topogun

Pedro Amorim

has anyone seen this?

http://www.topogun.com/

Its like ultra cool.

thefatladysings

so it's like something to create lowpoly meshes on top of a highpoly model?

Pedro Amorim

yes sir!
its a specialized retopology mesh program

thefatladysings

I just got the beta and so far it's completely awesome

definitely something you should try out

Jay Evans

same here. Just figuring out the controls but seems to be really fast so far.

Pedro Amorim

me three. its awesome.

ScoobyDoofus

Im in the beta, but its been nothing but Crashtastic for me so far, sadly. Looks neat though!

MoP

Hmm, quite interesting, I'm sure I'll be better at it once I figure out how to select the damn edges!

CheapAlert

Blender 2.43rc1's already got this feature

Eric Chadwick

PolyBoost seems to do this as well (though you need Max).

animatr

but does polyboost draw on top of the origianl model? like does it follow the model's normals and such?
I think I tried the polyboost demo a long time ago and didn't like it. Maybe it has changed though.

Eric Chadwick

Haven't had a chance to use it yet, but seems like it does the same basic idea as Topogun, for just $116 US.

PolyDraw
An array of tools for quickly editing meshes or scetching out
a mesh , either on the main grid, projected onto the surface
of another object or on the selected object itself.



Looks pretty cool to me, gonna have to give it a spin.

Mongrelman

If my understanding of Topogun is correct, it doesn't just allow you to draw topology over another mesh, it will also transfer across the high frequency detail. Like one of the new features in the elusive zbrush 2.5

animatr

that's what it kind of read like. The practical.mov is a sweet movie to watch. I'm really impressed. Couldnt have come at a better time either with the dom war and all

Neox

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but does polyboost draw on top of the origianl model? like does it follow the model's normals and such?
I think I tried the polyboost demo a long time ago and didn't like it. Maybe it has changed though.

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Yes polyboost does that.

Rhinokey

i got in the top gun beta, and so far heres my experience, i click the run icon i get a popup saying that version is expired, i click ok, it says please renew license, i click ok, for a breif secon i see a pop up for me to input information in, then it goes away and i get the, "this program has encountered an error and had to shutdown" popup

thefatladysings

download this and you'll be alright:
http://www.topogun.com/kit/topogun_update.zip

I had the exact same problem

Rhinokey

that file there gives me a string of about 8 pop up errors and crashes

dejawolf

hey, you can actually do this with snap to face, and the line tool in max!
just apply surface modifier

Neox

yes but snap to face and surface modifier isn't as fast as polyboost and it has this ugly snap to face gizmo, that sucks, also you can't snap to face with an offset

Rhinokey

you could actualy do this in note pad, but it would take longer,, i think the purpose of the difrent aps are to make it easier. i saw like a ton of functions in the practical video that the line tool snap to face could not do.

so far i got topogun running, but when i import my obj (not even 100k faces) it freezes near the end of the progress bar and never loads,

so far this ap seems to have a lot of problemas

Cristi

Rhino, I think you should read the TopoGun forum, there are some fixes to problems like yours.

Rhinokey

cool cristi i breezed thru it a bit but been so tied down with work, havent had time to give it a thorough search

Rhinokey

well got past my major issues with this program 85% of which were just me doing something wrong.

its actualy pretty cool, and very easy to use if its reasonably priced, i'm pretty sure i'll pick it up.

Cristi

Just letting you know the www.topogun.com site was updated, there is a new sneak video of the upcoming beta 1.1, check it out, you might like it.

MoP

Very nice, thanks Cristi!

FatAssasin

Looks pretty cool. Can anyone do a compare/contrast with Silo's topo brush? Looks like its main selling point is the loft tool. I can see that really speeding up the workflow.

Cristi

You can also edit any stroke and sample points along the strokes.

conte

polyboost doing that job very good, what we need more?

East

It sounds and looks really interesting, and I would love to get my hands on the beta to play around a bit, although I bought a Silo license the other day just for retopology purposes.

As for Polyboost, that does require 3ds, and some of us just don't swing that way

Renaud Galand

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polyboost doing that job very good, what we need more?

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I don't know, I tried polyboost a few weeks ago, and it was VERY slow with a mesh around 500k. The draw polys tool was working randomly, etc.

Btw, the 1.1 video is just awesome

arshlevon

topogun for the win!!! its very good at what it does, still in beta, but i would like to see it have some more features. it literally saves hours of work.

conte

yeah, Renaud, it very slow, because it's 3dmax.
i am importing mesh to max by parts to parts, then optimising it and building up lowres over it...
...it works...=)

Rhinokey

i like your attitude askhat,, lets take it a step further,, why have more than one type of car? i mean one car choice is all anyone needs if the car runs ok. hmm one type of food. thats all we need no choice at all.

the more aps like this the better, it forces competition and better products,

topogun is real nice so far even if is somewhat buggy

should get better in time

Eric Chadwick

I think the reason for debate is to find which tool shaves down your production time.

Rhinokey

just grabbed 1.1 the draw feature is fantastic,

Asmuel

Damn you guys getting it to work! I got version 1.035 and it was crashtastic

conte

Rhinokey, u right.

Rhinokey

asmuel i rarely ever crash,, tho a co worker crashes his all the time

thefatladysings

I tried making some basic meshes and it isn't really going fast
At the moment I make a row of vertexes, another row of vertexes and then select vertexes one by one and use the bridge button. Is there a faster way of doing this?

Cristi

Well that's a slow and unproductive way of using TopoGun.
You should check out the videos and/or read the main TopoGun forum.
You should at least block out the main topology then subdivide the mesh, or at least you could use the make faces option.
Or use the new draw feature...

Rhinokey

nice to see you checkin around other forums to help people out,

Asmuel

Yea Draw feature looks wicked, Cristi gave me access to Version 1.1 so I'll get to try it out very soon thanks Cristi.

I been too busy to try it just yet but I cant wait, this app has great potential

Cristi

Check out the main website, I've posted some screenshots of TopoGun for Linux in action.

FatAssasin

The site is down. Anyone know what's going on?

ghib

Whatever happened to this tool? Seemed really promising at one point but for ages it's been a blackout.

vik

It`s still in development afaik

thomasp

is it stuck in the same void that "clay" vanished into?

pior

Still use it for each and every reropo job! There was an update last week too. It remains as fantastic as it always was. Can't wait to buy it actually!!

ghib

Thanks guys, I stopped using Topogun when I bought 3DCoat and also having problems getting my beta license working with the latest updates.

I really liked using Topogun as the 'recapture' tool was the best out there. 99.9% of the time I got a perfect result. Is good to hear it's still up and running.

Has the draw by spline tool (similar to Silo's Topology tool) been updated at all. Not sure which particular build I'm using as it merely says Version 1.3 beta.

Taylor Hood

I was recommend this. I take it's still in beta? I'm hearing great things about it.