A technical talk on the many hacks and workarounds needed to bring Retopoflow from its own mode into Blender's Edit Mode. We will cover pre-visualizing tool edits, temporarily swapping Blender settings, finding geometry nearest to the mouse, and others.
Professor by day; developer by night. I am an associate professor of computer science at Taylor University, where I teach computer graphics, data structures, algorithms, languages, game dev and engine architecture, front-end web dev, research, and many other CS topics. I am a developer at Orange Turbine, mostly spending time as the main developer behind RetopoFlow.