Marvelous Designer 12 Retopology Improvements
Objective
Improve the flexibility and ease of use of the Topology Tools within Marvelous Designer.
Create Topology:
Location
3D/2D Window Tool Bar ▶ Topology Tools
New Operation (from Ver.12)
Cut Topology Faces
→ Existing blue topology faces can be split by drawing new Topology Points/Edges across them.
→ If cut faces result in Ngons, any blue topology faces with more than 4 sides will be highlighted in orange.
User-Drawn Topology snaps to Internal Lines
→ When the user creates topology, new points can be snapped to Internal Lines/Shapes as well as external pattern boundaries.
Edit Topology:
Location
3D/2D Windows Tool Bar ▶ Edit Topology Tool
New Operation (from Ver.12)
Display Ghost Topology across Sewing Relationships for Internal Lines
→ When Topology Points meet Internal Lines with a sewing line, you can find the ghosts of those points automatically displayed at the opposite sewing relationship.
Drag Select Topology Points
→ Click outside of an area of blue topology and drag across it to select multiple Topology Points at once.
→ Click and hold the 'Shift' Key, then click and drag over an additional area of blue topology to add Topology Points to an existing selection.
Drag Deselect Topology Points
→ Click and hold the 'Control' Key, then click and drag over an existing selection of Topology Points to remove Topology Points from that selection.
Patch Topology:
Location
2D Window Tool Bar ▶ Patch Topology Tool
New Operation (from Ver.12)
Snap Patch Topology to Internal Shapes/Lines
→ Patch Topology edges will snap to both external and internal pattern lines and curve points.
Snap Patch Topology to Convex Curves
→ Patch Topology edges will now snap to both concave and convex curves.
→ If the curvature of an edge is too extreme for a patch to be created, add one or several curve points along the curved edge with the 'Add Point/Split Line' tool to divide the curve into sections with less extreme curvature.
Evaluate Patch Validity at Creation
→ After closing a Topology Patch and clicking 'Create', if the drawn patch would create overlapping geometry, an error window pop-up will be raised - return to the Patch Topology tool and update the patch as necessary to avoid overlapping edges/vertices.
→ If the drawn patch would not result in overlapping geometry, the Topology Patch will be created and displayed in blue.