adjoustinf straight lines after retopology

NAIMA

Hi I am wondering how to do to readjoust straight lines after having mde a retopology of a model , now I am fairly new and I tried the topogun beta but the first attempt altough I coudl follow the shape of my model , some linees and vertices aren't aligned on straight lines that the model has , I mean it's all a bit handworked feel and not precise , is there any tool to make the linees straight , even , the vertices aligned and so on ? may be in 3dsmax or topogun?

poopipe

in max i find the edge and normal constraint things in editable poly very handy for doing this. there's probably some stuff in graphite that'll do the trick as well.


Your other option is to buy wrapit - i find it far superior to any external topology app

poopipe

Oops, DP

NAIMA

Mmmm no constrains dont help to fix much and the graphite modeling I dont know if there is any usefll tool for that ... it woudl be some kind of normalization of the angle between and edge and the other in order to reduce the up and down and so flattening the circles but without altering the whole loop inclination ..... if makes sense what I wrote ...

NAIMA

Mmm Actually in 3dsmax using local alignment for scale directional gizmo seems to have some decent results but not yet tried on the loops....

CheeseOnToast

Try the brush in topogun set to "relax". It's based on the brush radius, so a bigger brush will use a larger sample to average.

NAIMA

when I apply relax it completely mess up the shape , while on the other hand I see no brush in topogun , sorry but I just trying the demo ....

poopipe

You do realise you're actually going to have to do some work right?

if you're trying to flatten loops that run around a cylinder simply enable edge constraints, select the loop and scale it in the appropriate direction.