Blender 2.8 Retopology with Polybuild Tool 

Best tool ever. Did a full bust retopo in less than an hour.

its a real great addition blender is becoming more more independent

One info was wrong: When you are in sculpt mode and use the grab brush to move around the vertices or smooth the mesh by holding the Shift key pressed, the vertices will not snap to the surface. But you could disable the option "In Front" on the Object tab, switch to sculpt mode then and move the vertices with the Grab brush to line them up with the retopo mesh to the underlying high poly mesh.

After viewing many tutorials on retopology, this one has to be the best. Very well explained. Thank you for sharing.

This is an awesome Blender tutorial right here Jayanam I love it.😃👍

YEEEESSSSS!! I had fallen out of learning Blender when I hit retopo. So happy to see this feature!

So clean and quick explanation, thanks a lot!

brilliant tool, explained in an excellent tutorial i've watched a lot of your tutorials, Jayanam, and there isn't a dud amongst them you do a superb job many thanks, as always, for sharing your knowledge

Another great tool. Thank you for this tut, Jayanam. Pretty soon, someone is just going to invent the "Easy button" add on. LOL!

That's awesome. Pablo's been kicking ass in the sculpting dev.

Note to people like me who couldn't figure out why their edges and vertices weren't highlighting red/blue like in the video: This tool just 100% doesn't work if you have gizmos hidden. It's one of the buttons down where all your viewport display options are. [Crtl + ` ] is the hotkey to toggle it if you can't find it. I normally have it off because I don't like the move/rotate/scale gizmos getting in the way of my selections all the time, so I had to troubleshoot why my poly build was broken for a while...

Jayanam, you're fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

Great demonstration

I love your way of focus on the add ons!

Retopology is arguably the most tedious part of 3d modeling (though I've heard people say that they enjoy it - go figure). For me, it's the least creative and therefore most boring part of the process. The poly build tool makes it so much easier, dare I say even borderline fun :) Thank you so much for your comprehensive tutorial. You explained everything perfectly and touched upon all important aspects of the tool. By far the best tutorial on this invaluable tool.

Wait... Yeah you could use Polybuild without Shrinkwrap now, I didn't realize it and have been using them together. Worth trying! Polybuild is an amazing tool, I love it. Thanks for the tutorial!

This looks super awesome.

For those who happen to only produce tris instead of quads: Make sure the edge is glowing, click or drag somewhere for the first vertex, then hold Ctrl and click/drag for the second. Rinse and repeat. Holding Ctrl for multiple vertices will result in n-gons.

Great tutorial! Thank you!

I was not aware of "In Front". Thank you!

Fantastic info, thank you!

smooth tut, thanks

Rápido y conciso. Muchas gracias!

It's about time Blender got a good built-in retopo tool.

Thanks for the helpful video.

Looks like it might save a little time and some key strokes during that step. I like it. Saves me from switching tools. I'm always for anything that helps stream line the work flow.

Some pro level modellers must be really loving this feature.

Great tutorial. Here's a tip. Drop the alpha on the base model to make it semi-transparent. Then shut off the "In Front" option. It still looks a little weird but you can see the points contacting the surface better IMO.

This Polybuild tool reminds me of the retopology tools in Maya. I think that's the most underrated thing about these new Blender 2.8 releases--it's a lot less difficult to learn if you come from a Maya background (which is most likely the case if you went to school for animation, as Maya is the "industry standard.")

Seems like a bunch of new great features after 2.8 release

I really look forward to the stable release.

ahahah someone distracted me at 0:53 and i was ready to press Control + Z to Undo on your video lol

This is a great feature and the only one really that was keeping me from completely moving away from Maya!

All other tuts are using shrinkwrap modifier and project individual elements (in face snapping options). Why not you? I am confused.

Me, after watching this video, having just spent a week retopologizing a mesh without knowing about this tool: ಠ_ಠ

wow you realy helped me a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you!!! yes!! very good!!!

Is it possible to make an extruded edge loop snap into a sphere when doing retopo for a sphere object like a fruit?

I still have some questions left like is there a way to close face loops (e.g. when i make an edge loop around an eye and then wanna close it without having to leave polybuild mode)? is there a way to insert patches? that's actually the only things that would be great to have as well. Thanks a lot Matthias for all your tuts!! I benefit a lot from them. always straight to the point and no big bla bla to lengthen your videos. this comes in so handy if you're in the process of working on something and need some tips, advice, keyboard shortcuts or whatever. i just watch your tutorials and can continue working after a very short amount of time with all the info i needed! fantastic job!

Good tool, new improvements it's always appreciate it. Although hard for me to try this since I am so used working with Retopoflow, cleaner interface and faster retopo. But still great tool :3

I tried using grab in sculpt mode, but the vertices aren't snapping to the high-res model. So was there another option I needed to do?

I don't have that "Split Edges&Faces" checkbox under "Auto Merge"... Anybody know whats the problem? I use 2,8, of corse

Does anyone know hoe to make the tool create quads instead of triangles?

Love it!!!

Thank you!!!!!!!

Hi i have a question: In your case the vertices snap beautifully to the model. Even with magnet snap enabled, whenever i draw a quad or extrude from one it A: reaches extremily far inside, there's no way to reconnect it anymore, even if it's just empty square like fields like a character stomache, it will reach inside my characters spine??? B: It reaches for something OUTSIDE i have no idea what, since i hid all my other meshes. 3 vertices look good, the 4th one just straight up escapes the mesh with extreme strength. C: my treshold is now at 0.000001m. It still does NOT snap to vertices. I have to hover for one minute to connect one SINGLE vertices of a quad, to another set of quads. Please help me

I am not getting the "create quads" checkbox in both 2.81 and 2.82. Anybody with the same issue?

When you push the edge only one of the points snaps. Then you have to position the other one

When i dropped the single vertex on the model that i sculpted even afterselecting the snap faces it dosent snap..it is just on the space...i had to go manual and drag it close the surface. could you say what went wrong ?

Why doesn't the faces of the "new" head don't glitch into the "old" head?

thx man :D

why when i choose polybuild tool it doesn't highlight an edge????

why my retopo pass through the main reference object

Hi. My Blender 3.2.0 doesn't show the new "green" color of my new mesh that I'm Poly Building... I'm just grey against grey...

Why is this better than using extrude and the fill with F2 addon?

I had issues with not being able to extrude the edge without making a single vertex

My plane is not snapping to closest mesh

That's really seems like an easier way and thanks for introducing this addon Jayanam (Y) I wonder if we create another plane to make different parts and merge them then? Is it possible?If it is, how? :)

anyway to get it on 2.7? I cant understand how 2.8 works, its like going to a new grocery store and you try to find where is the nugget box

holy shit this is cool

Works a lot like 3dMax's topo tools I'm used too

is this the same as maya's retopology ?

Thanks. Really.👋

Nice 👍

Cool!

how do we join two face together though?

I don't know why but my plane is not at all snapping

Enjoyed the video, but have a question. Does the mirror function actually work on a non-symmetric model?

thanks

Do the grab and smooth brush really snap to the geometry? Doesn't seem to work for me :/ thanks for the video !!

Pablo Dobarro is working wonders. Does anybody know where/how to download his tools and stuff?! Edit: I should have watched til the end of the video before asking.

For me it won't snap to the object

great!

in the beginning, why not just scale down the plane you created and snap it to the surface of the head instead of going through the steps of deleting vertices and creating a new plane.

I'm creating a VIDEO GAME, I just created over 200 full body characters from here to toe in blender. I just need to add fine detail like wrinkles, the puffiness under the eyes etc. What is the best method to use DYNTOPO or MULTI-RESOLUTION? But I DON'T want to go through the trouble of Retopologzing all 200 characters just so it could render. I just want a straightforward flat answer.

IDK why the controls are different for me. :(

Whats next? how to you apply the new retopo mesh to you model?

why the hell is the tool creating tris instead of quads for me? i cant find a way to create quads with it... holding Ctrl just creates a tri but makes it an NGON with the previous surface...

The tool is kinda broken as Shift-clicking vertices for merging deletes them.. and changing the keymap doesn't affect the visual behavior which means holding shift still highlights it in red.

This is an awesome and looks amazing step forward.. i wished pablo and the retopoflow guys could work together to build something easy and user friendly...im still against the idea of having to add anything and than adjust it before retopologizing id rather see bring 3d item into a retopo mode and just start clicking on it quick and easy like 3d coat and retopogun is... this cant be that hard to do.. after all they have been doing it for years

Hello i have a questrion how u can join the vertex automatically?? inside new poly build tool thank u can select for faces o should be select for vertex?? thanks!!

how well does this work with bsurfaces, maybe do a more in depth retopo tutorial with all tools available in 2.8?

My computer is fairly new I have a dell inspiron computer newest version of microsoft windows 10/64 and a dell keyboard. I do not see a del key any where on my key board. I really like this tutorial is there another option

I can't see the option "Create quads" D:

Took me 1:26 to hear that you are german. And i'm german and quit good at english. Oh and very nice video :) I love the Blender Cummunity so far.

Loved this video but I did not like the tool in practice. Difficult to select smaller edges, and undo is flaky. Could be user error, but I much prefer extruding a face with component snapping on

It`s Satyr from Satyricon? :)

MUCH BETTER THAN OLD USUAL WAY TO 3D NEWBIE LIKE ME.

i dont know whats going on because i followed the steps and my polygons are going inside of the bloody thing!

Toggle in front. won't change anything. change color won't see color. All i see is verticies and honestly I dunno how I even would do this... Maybe a boxing glove was a mistake to have as a beginner project after following tutorials that did not take game assets to account?

What is different from the 2.80 version?

looks like a good tool to have. Hoping for a Retopoflow 2.0 release soon!! EDIT; it seems they removed the "create quads" toggle ? can anyone confirm this?

I've just done all that in 2.80 using the ShrinkWrap modifier - did I miss something?

Great tool overall! But I really miss the ability to extrude multiple edges at once.

Thanks for sharing, but why this insane approach of adding a plane select a vertice, invert selection and delete all other vertices..just to get a darn point in to the scene, surely the workflow should be easier than that. In lightwave, you just click on point button and click where you want the points (vertices) And in blender we also have a way of adding a single point, but I think you need to activate extra mesh tools in the addon list. After that you should have add mesh/single vert/add single vert, it will be located both in object mode and in edit mode, but for edit mode it will be add single vert directly. so hover locate that with the mouse, but right click on it and you will be promted with "add shortcut" make sure to stand on that blue field with the mouse cursor, then you can hit " p" for points...if you want that as the shortcut of course. Now you just have to hit "p" to add a point to the scene in the future, to note is that p is assigned to another default command, (seperate selected geometry in to a new mesh) but I do not use it at all, you could of course set the shortcut to whatever character you please. The mesh addon for adding a point in to the scene or in edit mode, it should really be there by default when installing blender..it´s basics, and a proper shortcut to go with it.

希望uv得到更多的改进（那将是更完美的）

As great as this addition is, Blender would win over far more users if it took a look at Topogun, and implemented a dedicated workspace for it that was similar to it.

All of that convoluted stuff you did at the beginning... Hopefully they will change the need to do that. Who in the hell would know to do that? How did you know to do that as the first step?

Thank goodness there is still RetopoFlow.

How is this useful? I can do all these operations using Extrude and Move.