• Miranda

  19 days ago

  This is a very well-built add-on, it almost feels like a program within a program. The tools are very intuitive and useful; I really want to give it 5 stars. I can see how it would be great for retopologizing mid-poly characters and smaller assets; the problem is that it is pretty bad on performance once you start building out larger pieces.
  I have a complex, abstract tree that I am retopologizing, the base mesh has around 480k tris. I am trying to use RetopoFlow to get a clean version of it with good edgeflow; the add-on works marvelously for the first 15k faces I make, but anything after that, it begins getting slow, lagging, and becoming difficult to use. So far, I split the tree into two pieces and got to 25k faces on one and 40k faces on the other. I will likely have to make one more segment and then merge the three different RetopoFlow pieces together to make a complete model.
  If I were working on a weak computer, this would be understandable; I was troubleshooting to see where the program was lagging so badly. My GPU and RAM both never ran over 40%, even when Retopoflow lagged so badly that it took 6 seconds to select a vertices with the poly-pen tool; then I looked at my CPU. I have a Ryzen 9 3900X; it seems that RetopoFlow is throttling the first 2 cores, despite there being 12 available. I know this is a problem Blender generally has, but it seems to be magnified in this add-on program a lot; I wouldn't expect to see that level of lag until I was sculpting something with several million polys.
  From what my friend who knows computers better guessed, RetopoFlow likely recalculates each vertices every time you add more mesh; so the more mesh you build, the more it has to calculate, and it's only using 2 cores of your CPU.
  If you're just working on small pieces for games, this works great; but its potential really is being limited by how it utilizes the CPU, which makes it inefficient. A future update where it can 'turn off' or ignore the vertices or mesh areas you're not working on would be great, so that it doesn't lag.

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  Orange Turbine

  18 days ago

  Hi, thanks for the feedback! You can hide vertices to turn them off from being calculated, but overall, we do know that performance is currently not great for higher polycounts. We've focused on this as a top priority and have two updates. RetopoFlow 4, which is about to be in beta next month, was redesigned from the ground up to not have these limitations and is orders of magnitude faster. Also, we have a new version of RetopoFlow 3 coming next month as well with massive performance improvements. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.
• Mike

  3 months ago

  I love this add-on! it has given me the ability to tackle more complex projects and bring my stuff up to a much higher level of completion. When I installed and used this for the first time I ran into an obscure bug as a result of my old, and unusual setup as well as some errors on my part. I sent an email to the development team and with in minutes I got a detailed reply from Jon Denning who walked me through the necessary steps to troubleshoot the issue. everything was quickly resolved and he got me back up and running. Top tier customer support, great experience!

• aaa

  6 months ago

  I guess this is super useful addon you can make retopology easily and effectively, but in my case that was horrible performance it seems can't stand with too many collection data.
  I'm seriously recommend try retopoflow before you buy, you can download retopoflow author's github page.
  early_alpha version works well for me and it's even only can use Polybuild(idk how can I call it) more useful and simple than latest version.

• Christopher

  6 months ago

  Retopoflow is a must have for Blender. This is well worth the money. I refuse to call it an addon because that would be an insult. It is so much more. It really is it's own program that runs inside of Blender. I haven't used TopoGun and now probably never will. This program feels like what TopoGun is expected it's half the price and the fact that it works inside of Blender makes it even better. You can keep all your work inside of Blender, no exporting to another app just to retopologize. I am no 3d modeling expert, but with this program I was able to complete retopology in an hour and a half instead of the 3 to 4 hours it would normally take me. When it was done the results were so much better than any other model I've retopologized. Edge flow was perfect and the quad density was spot on, it looked like a professional did it. I can't say enough good things about this program. If you're on the fence about getting it don't be, but it you won't be disappointed.

• Bea

  7 months ago

  Got the Retopoflow 4 alpha from the Blender Market anniversary. This version only came with 1 tool, and yet doesn't work at all, I feel bad for those that paid for this.

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  Orange Turbine

  7 months ago

  Hi, nobody has paid for RetopoFlow 4 Alpha as it has only been given out for free. The paid version is RetopoFlow 3. Version 4 is a complete rewrite, and some bugs are to be expected in the alpha stage, but we have not gotten any reports of it not working altogether. If you have issues with getting either version to work, please let me know right away!
• Aalma

  10 months ago

  It is working perfectly for me!
  Despite all the negative reviews here, I risked and bought the full Retopoflow (Personal pack) and I am absolutely satisfied with this incredible tool.
  Besides that, the creators provide amazing and fast support.

  Thank you guys! You made the re-topology process so fast and pleasant!

• ASD

  10 months ago

  This addon is currently so slow and laggy that it is practically impossible to use even with fairly low-poly sources on powerful systems. I really hope version 4 will fix the performance, but as of right now version 3 is practically unusable.

• Angela

  10 months ago

  Hi! Orange Turbine, Thank so much. I really appreciate your effort. Greetings!

• Phoenix

  10 months ago

  Awesome

• Vlad

  10 months ago

  Very powerful addon and great in theory but laggy and unusable, I barely have 10K triangles in my low poly and maybe 300K for my high poly. Wasted more time fixing wrongfully placed vertexes from lag than anything else.

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