Retopo tool?

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Have then implemented a retopo tool in v2.5 yet? (Impress an object into a plane)

Thanks

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see 2.5x projection snapping

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And I think you can convert Grease Pencil drawings into meshes. Or is this a planned feature?

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Hmm, this does not do anything for me under Windows. I am using Blender 2.5 SVN 26302. I enabled snapping, face,snap_project

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Make sure you have project elements instead of snapping ON. I’m running official 2.5 Alpha 0 on OSX and it works.

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@ Campbell
one question about the snapping function! In general it works fine! but I’ve made a retopo vor a high resolution sculpt, and the performance of the snapping function was somehow crappy.
I think I remember that retopo in 2.49 was qucker.

May you say something about this? Will this still be polished. Or may it even be an unknown issue?

Greetings Andreas

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Hi
It does not work for me fully, nomatter which option I try. I assume that the “project elements” option is the icon that is between “the camera” and the "snap target’ icons. Sometimes it seems to work for a bit then when I reopen the file I cannot get the snapping back. Quite confusing

Please bring back the old Retopo tool. I do not mind having new tools but previous topo tool has its own quirks but it works well for certain kinds of jobs.

Edit: I will also investigate my models in case there are some issues with the scale of the models and projection.

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There’s a caching issue with the current method. It rebuilds some acceleration structures too often.

Martin