Cage opened this issue on Feb 24, 2010 · 592 posts
Cage posted Fri, 05 March 2010 at 12:21 AM
Quote - Far be it from me to be a Blender advocate. The best thing that one can say about Blender is that it is free. It was worth a few hours of research though.
As I read the limited documentation, Retopo will allow you to choose just the vertices you want to project onto your target figure. It must be from a lined up point of view. If you can undo mistakes, then by trial and error, you could eventually accomplish what you want. It would probably be a very arduous process, requiring that you hide about everything you do not want to affect on the target, and the object being Retopo-ed. You would need to do that about every time you took another step. Ouch. If you had to do this for each figure you might want to compare, then $595 (USD) for ZBrush begins to sound cheap.
Sorry if I sound grouchy about Blender. :lol: I've had questionable experiences with the program. Others can make it work for them, and it's good that you're sharing this information. Thank you for bringing it to the thread. Thank you for doing all this research into the matter! :woot: It's just that I, personally, probably won't try to use Blender for this.
So it could actually work, more or less, but not very easily. Is that right? Perhaps someone will want to try it.
Where can one get ZBrush for that amount? Last time I checked their website, they had it listed for closer to $750.00, IIRC. That $150.00 difference in price could make the difference in driving me toward - or away from - the product. :laugh:
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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking. He apologizes for this. He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.
Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below. His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.