TopoGun 2.00 betatesting started

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: PixelMachine
Post Time: 03-01-2011 at 09:48 AM
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Please go at www.topogun.com and download the install kit, in case you want to participate.


The upgrade from TopoGun 1.xx to TopoGun 2.00 will be FREE OF CHARGE for existing customers. However, the TopoGun 2.00 licenses pricing may be subject to changes.
If you already have a TopoGun 1.xx license, you can activate and use TopoGun 2.00 BETA1 by using your existing licensing details. You don't have to uninstall TopoGun 1.xx from your system, they work just fine together.
In case you have a SINGLE license (activated as Online or Offline), you should activate TopoGun 2.00 BETA1 on the same computer you installed TopoGun 1.xx to, otherwise there will be a licensing conflict. Also, in case you activated your license as Online, make sure you do not return your license to the server from TopoGun 1.xx before installing TopoGun 2.00 BETA1, the license can be activated on both versions, as long as they're installed on the same computer.

Remember this is a BETA version of the software, so there are great chances that some of the features need some more work, so your feedback is highly appreciated. The forum will be used for feedback and error reporting, but we also strongly suggest you to use the built-in error reporting tools.
Also, due to the fact that this release is not the final one, no documentation on the new features has been written. Anyway, at http://vimeo.com/topogun/videos you can watch several videos showing the most relevant new features.

What's new:

• The Symmetry has been rewritten and it works with all the tools. You can create custom Symmetry Planes and Symmetry Warps, so you can use symmetry on arbitrary rotated objects or on objects with slightly asymmetrical features.
• The Morpher extension helps you modify the reference mesh and have the modifications bounced back to the scene geometry. This way you can basically review the highpoly sculpting process after the lowpoly retopologized version was created. The Morpher can also be used for creating lowpoly versions of digitally sculpted blendshapes or for posing lowpoly geometries like their corresponding highpoly references.
• The Draw tool has been upgraded, it supports two new line types, the Section lines and the Sweep lines, which help you retopologize cylindrical parts of the reference mesh.
• The new Tubes tool also helps you retopologize cylindrical parts of the reference mesh, by using a slightly different approach.
• The Brush tool: modify vertices with industry standard brushes and tablet pressure sensitivity support.
• The Extrude tool allows for edges extrusions.
• Double clicking on a border edge in SimpleEdit mode selects the entire border edge loop.
• File history: access the latest opened/saved scenes from within the File menu.
• Scene crash recovery makes it impossible to lose any scene data, due to unexpected software errors.
• Merge Scene: now you can merge polygon data into an existing scene, from external files.
• To Full Shell command helps selecting the current geometry shell, including its vertices, edges and polygons.
• The Spin Edges command.
• Select Path now works on edges too.
• Online activated license can now be returned to the server via the website.

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