• Austin

  over 3 years ago

  Originally I had left a 3 star review but I've returned to increase to 4.

  The team behind RF reached out to me and solved a handful of my problems, showing me that the features I thought I were missing were implemented they just need to be clarified.

  With that said, I cannot express how much RT has increased the speed of my workflow. I had the face of my sculpture retopologized in a fraction of the time it would've taken me to use modifiers and snapping in vanilla Blender. I'm thoroughly impressed and can only recommend this plugin/tool.

  With that said, the only issues that remain for me are:
  - slight lagginess & low framerate, more so than high-res sculpting
  - preview face of polypen sometimes disappears (support team has reached out to me about this)

  One feature I'd really like to see which would be immensely helpful to me:
  - paint/color topology to keep track of important loop structures

  Originally I had thought the buy price was much too high for what I had received. However the fast support response time, clarification of some tools/usability, and sheer convenience/power of this tool has shut me up.

• Cody Harder

  over 3 years ago

  This is my favorite retopo tool by far. I've used a number of other in a professional setting (3dsMax, Maya, Zbrush, 3DCoat) and each of them had individual strengths, but a lot of weaknesses. Retopoflow has all the strengths, with practically no weaknesses, aside from a few minor bugs I've come across (which were easily fixed by restarting Blender.)

  Simply put, I've grown to look forward to retopologizing models thanks to Retopoflow.

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  Orange Turbine

  over 3 years ago

  Thanks Cody! Please report any bugs to retopoflow@cgcookie.com and we'll get those taken care of.
• Julio

  over 3 years ago

  Overall I think is a great suite of tools from what I've seen in Youtube videos. Sadly, I've come across some very discouraging issues:

  My main issue is the lag. I downloaded the latest version of the addon and installed it in a blender 2.91 version. I am trying to retopologize my sculpt into a low fidelity geometry, say 8 vertices loop around a limb, so far 116 faces in total, and I am already getting a 1-2s delay after every action.

  Another issue is the pixelated/broken UI. I searched this issue up and it looks like this is a known and open issue for Catalina Macbook Pro users.

  My last issue, which I don't know if its a bug or just me not knowing how the Symmetrize function works happens when I use Polypen and try to bridge the geometry to the center. The vertices don't snap. I was hoping it would work like when I have clipping enabled in the mirror modifier. I.e. I cannot fill/bridge geometry to the center (I think the tool is called patch) because adjacent vertices to the center are not merged.

  I don't mind the UI since the text is readable enough and I can still click around, but the perfomance is somewhat of a letdown.

  I think the price for the value the suite offers it's alright, but was def expecting a more polished product. I won't submit a refund ticket because I have faith these issues will be addressed and I want to support the team, since I am also a subscriber in the CG cookie courses. Also because I will be upgrading hardware in the future so hopefully I wont be experiencing these issues anymore.

• 

  Orange Turbine

  over 3 years ago

  Thanks for letting us know Julio! If you're still having trouble with lag, please reach out to us either through the Blender Market support button above or at retopoflow@cgcookie.com. We'll get those issues fixed as soon as we can find the cause of the problem.
• CH

  over 3 years ago

  Truly amazing stuff. If you are looking for a decent tutorial on version 3, the content at "https://flippednormals.com/downloads/retopologizing-a-head-with-retopoflow-3/" is pretty good so far.

• Patrick Wilson

  over 3 years ago

  Great set of tools, I am really happy to pay to support this endeavor, my only single gripe is that the help part of the UI seems badly implemented, I'd rather not have it and just rely on a web page I can sit on another monitor, keeping the UI of the tool simpler and feeling more grounded within Blender.

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  Orange Turbine

  over 3 years ago

  Thanks for the feedback - a web based help is coming soon!
• Hartmut Döring

  over 3 years ago

  Old time user and really impressed with the update. One of the best tools to retopo overall.
  The Interface is greatly improved, and much more intuitive now.

• Neil S.

  over 3 years ago

  Latest release appears to have fixed the user interface lag which is brilliant. Very useful add-on and well worth the money.

• arfree

  over 3 years ago

  the latest release is really stable guys, keep it up!!

• Daniel Bystedt

  over 3 years ago

  Retopoflow is my favorite tool for manual retopology among all the different softwares that I have tried. The developers are passionate and are always finding new ways to make the addon better. Thank you! :-)

• Vesper

  over 3 years ago

  Honestly, I love the team at CG especially their tutorials....but I am done with Retopoflow. I just tried the BETA 3.... I don't know what to say anymore or who or what to blame. Forgetting the lag, which is something I think will be fixed. I could upload literally 20 gifs right now to show you how this tool is broken. I got this in 2.79 era and honestly I have never not run into frustration.

  I seriously don't understand how after years of development this is still in the condition it is. I am sorry if I seem so negative..I have literally spent thousands on the market and this is still the only add-on that fills me with regret and causes me to squint whenever I fire it up. I almost feel like telling CG, either hire some more/other developers or trash the project. It is entirely riddled with bugs and non consistency. This adon sometimes FEELS like making geometry when you draw and other times it doesn't. Sometimes it feels like respecting symmetry and other times it doesn't. I am sorry guys to me and my workflow this is a disaster. There is nothing intuitive about this in reality. If it were ethically possible I would ask for my money back for this item on principal. GUYS, I shudder whenever I think of this add-on---that should tell you something everything.

  This add-on is not worth 86$...I am sorry guys, I know the work you put in and what you guys think you are worth (which makes sense). At best this is a 25-35$ add-on for its quality. Anything more for the quality you have provided is in my opinion unjustified.

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  Orange Turbine

  over 3 years ago

  Hey Vesper, thanks for being a long time supporter of RetopoFlow! Of course, I'm incredibly sorry to hear that the recent versions have been a negative experience. The lag has been significantly improved as of yesterday's build.

  One request - please do send us those gifs!

  We've tried to make it as easy as possible to contact us (retopoflow@cgcookie.com, Blender Market messaging, GitHub issues, and a button in the app itself). If you experience any issues like the ones outlined above, which do not sound like any issues we have run into yet or have been reported to us, please please let us know so that we have the opportunity to fix them.

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