Retopoflow - Retopology Toolkit For Blender

by Orange Turbine in Addons


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This item has an average rating of 4 from 177 ratings by the community.

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  • Georg
    almost 2 years ago

    Either I'm stupid or I don't know. But I lack the ability to step forward or back if I want to correct something. Working like this feels very difficult.

    • Orange Turbine

      almost 2 years ago

      Hi, if you're experiencing problems with undo, it's likely to be a keymap conflict with custom settings or another add-on. Please message us for support and we can help resolve that for you!

  • guppy0z
    almost 2 years ago

    The tool idea is great. But having that much performance issue is a no go...
    I'm doing a dull body retopo with less than 10k faces on the decimated model that is 260k faces... The lag is just insane as a pro tool.
    Bought it to support the creators back then and because the tool looked very useful...

    • Orange Turbine

      almost 2 years ago

      Hi, thank you for the feedback. The slowdown is due to the polycount on the low poly object, and hiding the parts you're not actively working on will bring it back to being snappy. We're actively working on a solution to this so that it will not be an issue in the future.

  • BVBY
    almost 2 years ago

    its great addon very handy n easy to buildup retopoligy!!
    But !! you have to put up with the so many crashs🤦‍♂️🥴😬

  • Mack King
    almost 2 years ago

    Would ABSOLUTELY Not Recommend.
    ive tried for almost an entire day to get this to work. it will Not work no matter what i do. i even FRESH INSTALLED IT on my brothers PC, who has never even Touched Blender, and it won't work! i spent an entire day of Purging every Setting, Temp file, EVERYTHING from my PC.
    i did everything but completely Reinstall Windows, and it refuses to open.
    the one time i DID get it to open, it froze and wouldn't load for an hour so i had to force close blender.
    i spent $86 on this a Year ago, i couldn't get it to work then, but i thought "oh, im sure its a bug they'll fix it" fast forward to a year later and still doesn't work. if i could get a Refund i would without a second thought. absolute, My entire day has been Wasted, my blood pressure has shot through the Roof, and i have nothing to show for it, actually worse! if this was a free add on at least i could say "Oh well, nothing lost" but i paid almost $100 for this! not only that, ive tried to get help from the maker of this for since early this morning, around 4AM, (Though the messages say i contacted the creator of this at 12PM, so there is some other time zone difference) its now 7:30PM and not ONE Message. tried to ask for help on Reddit, nothing. asked for help on Twitter, nothing. asked for help on the Blender Forums, NOTHING. if you buy this, i hope you have a SOLID background with Python, and a great amount of Luck. Googling "Setup Issue: no source detected" nothing comes up, so i guess this is just a problem hand made for mine and my brothers PC's, or this simply doesn't work.

    • Orange Turbine

      almost 2 years ago

      Hi there, where did you send your message to? There is not one from you in the Blender Market inbox, retopoflow@cgcookie.com, or any of our other support channels.

      Of course we can send through a refund if it's not working for you, but it sounds like the issue is that you don't have an object in your scene for RetopoFlow to snap to, which is why it can't start. Please read the getting started documentation that's on Blender Market, our website (docs.retopoflow.com/quick_start), and in the RetopoFlow menu itself in order to learn how to get started with the tool. There's also a button on that warning itself that links to the documentation on how to set up the scene. No python is ever required to use the add-on. Please message us via the Blender Market's Ask a Question button if you have any issues.

  • Olivier Jallard
    almost 2 years ago

    Super Retopo tool! I use it in production and it works verry good. For me its the best retopo i ever used. fast and clean. I look forward to see new features.

  • Jacob
    almost 2 years ago

    Really good when the setting is just right.

    When working with a decimated sculpt (<1m) and the target mesh gets up to about 15k polys, everything slows down. It's still usable, but not snappy at all. The poly pen will also place a vertice a split second after releasing MB which causes it to be placed in the wrong spot. Very frustrating when you're trying to be quick.

    If you can get your sculpt to extremely low poly and it doesn't have too many crevices or folds then this tool is a breeze. Otherwise, I find myself getting down some basic geometry before switching to doing things manually with the Bsurface addon. It breaks my flow, so a lot of times I find myself just doing most of my retopo with Blender's default tools.

    If performance were better, this tool would be worth every penny. It just gets hung up too easily IMO. I've noticed that my framerate will drop significantly before even beginning to retopo a sub 1m poly sculpt when firing up Retopoflow. It's just too slow

  • benzychan
    almost 2 years ago

    Wonderful Add-on. I have used it a lot in production settings without much issue. It has become an integral part of my workflow.

  • Michael
    about 2 years ago

    Unreliable and crashes constantly even on simple meshes.

    • Orange Turbine

      almost 2 years ago

      Please let us know if you experience a bug - especially a crash! We'd love to have an opportunity to fix it.

  • AnPap
    about 2 years ago

    Best Retopo Tools in (and out of) Blender imo. Contours, polystrips and Strokes are very smooth and efficient, a great speedup compared to vanilla Blender!

  • Zach Lambert
    about 2 years ago

    I used to be in denial about the value of this addon. Every time I saw the price, I thought to myself "Excuse me? ~$90 for a modeling addon?!?? HELL NO!!!"

    I finally caved once I started doing really complex modeling that absolutely needed top-notch retopo and now my "hell no" is a "HELL YEAH".

    This addon SLAPS. The amount of things that it gets under the hood to change for the retopo process is astounding. It's like using a separate program within Blender! (While still feeling like Blender) It is JUST NUTS how much this has helped my work-flow and made me a more proficient and capable artist.

    If you are doing ANY SORT OF MANUAL RETOPO: BUY. THIS. ADD-ON.

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Sales 14300+
Downloads 31800+
Customer Ratings 177
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Published about 10 years ago
Blender Version 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.9, 2.8, 2.79
Extension Type Add-on
License GPL
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