Does anyone know if Quad Remesher will be IOS only forever or if it will come to Android in future updates but if not why?
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Stephane has already stated that it most likely wonât
Why?
- Exoside hasnât ported the algorithm to Android yet https://exoside.com/
- even then, the market might not be there
- maybe security issue? And Android is a mess with all the supported platform (Chromebook, desktop, emulator, etc)
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I canât wait to give my money for the plugin. The market is hereâ:sweat_smile:
Was excited to hear about the in app purchase in that it was a way to further support StĂŠphaneâs endeavors. Is there a way to donate to the Nomad Sculpt (on android) cause?
It´s a shame considering that for phones some android devices are a lot better for working with nomad than any iPhone because they include a sensitive pressure stylus like s23 ultra, and others has a bigger screen like folding phones.
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Itâs appearing on my s23 Ultra now? Iâm not sure why itâs appearing right now? I canât purchase by the looks of things been clicking on it. Please not let this be a rub salt on the wound 
Argh itâs an issue, update is on the way anyway.
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Good job
I will not create a new topic, I will ask here.
Will there be Face Group support for QuadriFlow (instant) or is it not possible to implement it (for the android version)?
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To my knowledge development for Quadriflow and instant mesh are long done - and nothing related to facegroup was ever intended.
Quadwild might come one day available in blender (Retopology: Min-Deviation-Flow in Bi-directed Graphs for T-Mesh Quantization - #5 by LazyDodo - Contributing to Blender - Developer Forum) hence will be opensource. In the post you will also find the limitations about Quadriflow, and the motivation for Quadwild. But also that Quadwildâs Blender integration is only in consideration phase, no info if still considered at all.
Frankly, the future will tell. First, the new algorithms has to show what itâs capable of. Second, it has to be implemented and published. And finally Stephane has to decide if itâs worth the effort to port it to Nomad.
Side node: Quadwild project is alive (GitHub - cgg-bern/quadwild-bimdf: QuadWild extended with BiMDF solver), but the remesher is only one side. Line guides, facegroup-support, etc. Thatâs another story and whats the first link is about.
I personally would not bet on it. But maybe Exocite decides one day to port their code to the Android world. The best solution if you ask me - but thatâs out of Stephaneâs control.
Back to your question: no facegroup for Instant Mesh or Quadriflow feasible.
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It is not necessary to add Quadremesh as a tool, it is enough to add the ability to create a symmetrical grid.
As for me, it is much more useful to make manual retopology tools, they will also be grid editing tools. It takes longer to create a grid manually, but the result will be better. Fewer polygons, better grid quality, fewer resources needed. This will be useful for mobile devices.
I donât mind at all if this is a paid add-on. Having a convenient tool for working on a tablet is much more important to me.
Try Cosy Blanket retopo app on iOS if your on iPad.
Yes, something like that should be implemented in Nomad Sculpt!
Well, I feel like a sucker for buying the software. Purchase is not transferrable between platforms. This is bad product management.
It sounds more like bad expectations management and a lack of user research before purchase.
Very few apps transfer over. Iâve made plenty of purchases that donât transfer. But if I want something to transfer, I take it upon myself to check and see if it does.
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In case of paid apps (not IAP), I would say itâs almost exactly 0.
And probably close to 0 for one-time purchases (unless very expensive)
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Not being able to transfer licence is kind of nail in the coffin not the main dissapointment.
When you release a product on different platform under same name, it is âkind of expectedâ that those products will cover same functionalities (including further releases) or you can at least provide similar functionalities to compensate the differences. Should people also expect that a product is just gonna abandon one platform one day
Btw i purchased the product before this thread started
Can you name any apps where you bought it on one platform and it was able to be restored as a full app on another platform? I canât think of any. Subscription based apps are different, but I canât think of any one-time purchaes that do this. If thereâs no account tracking done by the app (eg thereâs no central nomad user account, this forum doesnât count), thereâs no way to transfer licences.
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I dont understand why everyone is hung up on me saying licence is not transferrable.
Guys, look, app is not same on different platforms. This is not how you manage a product. You can not say these are same product. There are no workaround, not even mentions of âbeing worked onâ or âin progressâ to provide same/similar functionalities.
And this functionality we are talking about, it is not as trivial as a missing UI color palette. If anything this is what Nomad has been missing for a long time (or so I thought until I see it on IOS). It is something thay will contribute the final look of the model. It will make easier to work with the model, pose the model, export a more refined model and we do not have this on Android platform.
I do not know what else to say. I woulndât be surprised that Android is completely abandoned one day by looking at those market purchase percentages (while platform market share world wide is close to half and half between IOS and Android).
But this does not change the fact that product is not managed well in terms of standards.