Retopoflow 3 - Retopology Toolkit For Blender

by Orange Turbine in Addons


Item Rating

This item has an average rating of 4 from 167 ratings by the community.

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  • Allen Lee Grippin
    about 6 years ago

    The usefulness of this tool is fantastic. For starters, it's a lot more robust than the previous version, and when it does crash, you don't lose anything and can get right back into the work in seconds.

    The Relax and Tweak tools are excellent for polishing geometry and can make even hastily-placed quads into professional looking work. The Patches tool is by far my favorite.

    All of the tools are lovely and the functionality is great. Thank you for making this tool better!

    • Orange Turbine

      about 6 years ago

      Thanks for the review Allen and I'm sorry to hear you've had so many stability issues. Version 1.x is definitely lacking in that department, which has been our number one priority with version 2.

      Beta for 2.0 is almost here (several months late), so I'll be keen to see what how your experiences improve.

  • ambientboi
    over 6 years ago

    This is cool but I only bought because I thought it had the edge patches feature : ( Will this ever be a thing? Realizing this was in testing but its been more than a year now. Really curious and excited. Thank you

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Edge Patches was never finished as it proved to be too convoluted to work in a streamlined manner.

      We have basic edge patching functionality in v2 that we're working on, though. It's' quite basic initially but we'll continue to improve it as we go along.

  • Deucer
    over 6 years ago

    I'm still learning 3D, so this is my first retopo tool. The install, documentation, and videos are nice and simple, which made it easy for me to just start. I really appreciate that there's only a few elegant tools, many more would feel too daunting for a beginner like me (and I'd bet these few tools are deeper than I realize). I'm glad I picked this tool from the others that I was considering.

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Thanks for the review Deucer!

  • Bryan Stone
    over 6 years ago

    Would be better but the latest version has knocked out my install, and I have for help with no concrete resolution to why its not working. Will give it another review if a fix or 2.0 corrects the issue.

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Hey Bryan, I don't believe we ever got a support request from you on the install issue?

      Typically installation problems are due to conflicting files left over from the install. It's always a good practice to restart Blender after updating an add-on, otherwise it'll commonly try and run both versions at the same time and fail.

      Please send me a support request via your inbox, https://blendermarket.com/inbox and I'll be happy to help you troubleshoot further.

  • Amber Gibbs
    over 6 years ago

    Installed the wrong version, seems to be working fine now!

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Good to hear Amber! We'll remove the previous review so as to be more accurate.

      Cheers!

  • jesus camarillo
    over 6 years ago

    Is Retopoflow 1.3.2 working on blender 2.79 ?

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Hey Jesus, yes RetopoFlow works in 2.7.9.

      For pre-sale questions please send a message via the Inbox, which you can do from the button to the right of the product description.

      If you're having problems in 2.7.9 then please send us a message also via the inbox and we'll resolve it.

      Reviews are not the right place for a question.

      Cheers,
      Jonathan

  • Joel Walden
    over 6 years ago

    Really smooth workflow. Innovative design with the Bezier curve based polystrips. Reliable snapping to the surface. Looking forward to the 2.0 update. Looks amazing!

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Thanks for the great rating! 2.0 is being actively worked on, so stay tuned!

  • gabriel montagne
    over 6 years ago

    It's hard to think about ever retopologizing again without this addon. Good stuff!

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Cheers Gabriel! I'm thrilled you like the tool.

  • Ezydenias
    over 6 years ago

    This is an essential plugin for blender if you ask me! It would be an essential plugin for every software if it was available for them. Now it might be buggy from what I've heard but I didn't encountered any bugs. But even if there are they are solvable with support of the creators I guess. But anyway, this cuts down the time for repology from hours to minutes! I am not joking, it even totally killed my box modell workflow for characters. Because now retopology is so quick that there is no reason not to sculpt a character. It actually was my fault not to purchase this a year ago and wasting my time making really good box modelled character, even if they rivaled sculpted models in some parts the topology just can't compare. Just buy it, even if it is not on discount, if you are into character design, if you work professionally and want to stay competetive than buy this plugin!.

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      That's very encouraging ezdenias! Thanks for the great review and stay tuned for 2.0! It's coming quite soon.

  • ST3
    over 6 years ago

    Just purchased this with the Holliday sale. It's a great addon for speeding up your work flow. I do anticipate version 2. I have only seen one glitch with the program that wasn't an obvious fix within about 7 hours of use. I rate five stars because so far it has made (in my opinion) on of the most boring parts of 3D slightly more enjoyable.
    With that said I would however like to see the polygon pen tool work more intuitively, like quad draw for Maya. It is almost just as much work at the moment as not even using it in the first place. Please add the ability to create faces without having to select verts. Please investigate quad draw.

    Thank you very much for the time and effort on this product. Looking forward to the future of this!

    • Orange Turbine

      over 6 years ago

      Thanks for the great review! We'll absolutely look into ways of making Polypen more intuitive. Reducing the selection requirement would be a good starting point, as that is easily the slowest aspect.

      Stay tuned for 2.0 news very soon!

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Published over 9 years ago
Blender Version 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.9, 2.8, 2.79
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