Must Have Addons & Tools for Retopology

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In this video talk about the different addons and tools for retopology
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0:00 INTRO
0:55 DECIMATE
4:06 VOXEL & QUADRIFLOW REMESH
7:43 POLYBUILDER
9:07 INSTATMESH - github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
11:13 BSURFACES ADDON
12:20 QUADREMESHER $60 - exoside.com/quadremesher/
16:29 RETOPOLOW $68 - blendermarket.com/products/re...
18:10 TESSALATOR $8.5 - blendermarket.com/products/te...
18:40 SPEEDRETOPO $1 blendermarket.com/products/sp...
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@WaterShowsProd 3 года назад

Psychoanalysts used to say that you can determine a person's personality by the flow of their topology. That's not the best joke, but it's good enough for the algorithm.

@TotalWannabe 2 года назад

Well, judging by my topology, I'm a terrible person

@philmehrart Год назад

Was going to bring up normal maps, but didn't want to go off on a tangent, haw haw

@clally3866 Год назад

@@TotalWannabe Hahahaha mine would just be a series of screams

@coronaphone710 8 месяцев назад

The biggest fear of a psychoanalist is a mirror. That's why Social Media is such a mess nowadays while online psychiatry shows signs of a pyramid scheme in my opinion.

@coronaphone710 8 месяцев назад

Other people say don't judge a book by its cover

@darrennew8211 3 года назад

I absolutely love your reviews of "here's a bunch of tools/classes/techniques." It really helps speed up the learning, especially for beginners.

@gedrgesfsdfwe4046 3 года назад

I don't think it's good for beginners particularly. In literally everything including visual arts the only method to automatize your works is to study first how to do every single thing from scratch to understand how things really work and only then move to specific methods or tools if necessarily

@daremo50na76 3 года назад

I love Retopoflow 3. Still learning it, but I love the tools and being able to do fingers arms and legs in a few minutes vs an hour is GREAT!

@YOSFP 3 года назад

I absolutely love that you don't only show 'the best solutions', but also some that might come in handy (and their usecases too!)

@mrhollywood1173 3 года назад

Grant ...... That was a FABULOUS coverage of the Retopology addon ....... much appreciate it. Cheers

@kertellfloat 2 года назад

You have no idea how much time you just saved for me. I was struggling so hard trying to find out the optimal way to retoplogize. Thank you so much!!! Will definitely go with retopoflow in my case. Maybe pair it up with softwrap for god-like retopo.

@gaston. 2 года назад

thank you Grant! such valuable info. for us program newbies. I am revisiting 3D, 25 years later when I was apart of a NYC 3D studio user group but gave it up in exasperation. These tools are now so much more artist friendly and only improving constantly.

@apemant 3 года назад

Poly builder is amazing, it blew my mind! And it's not an add-on, it's in the package already, so that's great. I don't think the setup is very hard. Instead of shrink wrap you can use Object properties / Viewport display / In front, then snap to surface on, works quite good at the start at least. Another thing, which was huge for me, is to change the drag sensitivity of the mouse and tablet pen, see Preferences / Input / Mouse Drag Threshold, and Tablet Drag Threshold, I use 2 pixels; It changes how quickly Blender reacts when you drag a vertex or other element (when NOT using G for grab). Makes the Tweak tool work much much much (yes, 3 muches) better! Default settings has a huge lag when you drag verts/edges/faces I think. Try it!

@SerMattzio 3 года назад

Great video, thank you. Retopo is oddly intimidating as a newbie, videos like this are so helpful :)

@talisman3d595 2 года назад

Hey Grant, recently I got my first commissions to do some hard surface work, and I decided to spend that money on quadremesher based on this and other retopology videos. Excited to make more organic things and be able to texture and rig easier. Thanks for making these videos!

@Nightmoore 3 года назад

Thanks so much for posting this. I'm using Blender for motion graphics work and converting client logos into 3D for some projects. Blender makes a mess with Font topology (or imported Illustrator shapes), and it's a huge pain to get anything clean to deform or bevel faces. Decimate wasn't helping much either from leaving triangles all over the edges. On some stuff, I just had to rebuild letters manually using planes. Quad Remesh just crushed it with one click and did exactly what I was looking for. Worth every penny.

@rickvandyk1855 Год назад

Great explanation of retopology tools. I really appreciate it.

@Kavriel 3 года назад

I have got to praise the quality of the content you're making. Obviously, you're making money from it, so you have incentives to do well, but the quality from all the videos I've seen you make is top-notch. You manage to pack quite a lot of content in relatively short videos, and that's what most people want, to learn a lot in a short time. So thanks a bunch.

@ddsmax 2 года назад

No fluff, just info. As a developer who knows nothn bout blender and 3d art, this video was very helpful.

@master-gbig1140 2 года назад

It's nice to finally see someone explain in detail more of the fundamental principles of creating complex objects in blender. Whereas, a few years ago blender modelers were pontificating as though they were God's. However, you bring us up to speed without beclouded metaphors that leave us empty handed, and scrambling in the dark after spending so much time listening. You are truly generis and inspiring to the creative community. I started out with Martin Hash's Animation Master which has fallen by the waist side, and blender seems like a great alternative because of people like you. Thank you for sharing.

@stevesculptor1 2 года назад

I know what you mean by 'Gods' like the youtuber 'numb nuts with the donuts'

@kamius1 Год назад

Thanks for excellent tutorial. It is a huge help for beginners to have a better retopology. 👍👍👍

@RG3DAnimationstudio 3 года назад

Some really great tips, thank you

@Tutterzoid 3 года назад

Thanks for all your research on these tools :)

@anotherguycalledsmith 3 года назад

Ecxellent content from your side - as always - and exactly what I needed right now. Thanks a lot indeed! See you ;-)

@Blendercage Год назад

I use quad remesher every day and I really like it for non animated things. It even does fine for that with a lot of meshes but I prefer the controls of retopoflow 3 for animation.

@MrAlkhial 3 года назад

thanks Grant for every thing

@indianocean29 Год назад

Very helpful !! thank you for sharing

@claysculptress 7 месяцев назад

Awesome review!

@Zgadek 3 года назад

Great tutorial! Thanks a lot. I would love to see a material which explain all type of export files

@matslarsson5988 2 года назад

Bsurfaces addon was news to me. Thanks!

@psy237 2 года назад

quad remesher, if you increase the adaptive size, that doesn't mean it makes more faces! It only means it distributes smaller faces where there's more detail needed. That's all. The option below called "adapt quad count" is the one you need to uncheck, if you wanna stay close to your desired quad count. Then if you wanna have further influence on the edge loops, you can actually use materials: edge-loop-control > use material ;) i really have to download the latest version of retopoflow, looks like big improvements since the first version on which I gave up on :'D

@GerardMenvussa 3 года назад

The Bsurfaces add-on sounds like a perfect solution.

@yusrighouse 2 года назад

Retopoflow has peaked my interest. That was so satisfying to see those polystrips being made automatically.

@BlenderQuick 3 года назад

Thanks so much, i needed this...................

@KaiBuskirk 3 года назад

oh man im gonna have to get back to this..... thank you!!!

@Estellars Год назад

Hello, I'm someone who uses Speedretopo! I think it's a good tool for beginners (like me) learning to retopologize their meshes/sculpts! It automatically uses things like shrinkwrap and mirror from the get go, and puts the new mesh in front of the model so you can see it without the original poking through. I use the vertices mode, since I don't quite understand some of the other modes it offers. I just build faces after placing a vertice to start from! I do hope to buy Retopflow at some point, but for a low end option I can say that Speedretopo is pretty good, though you still have that learning curve and it's not as fast.

@zaidkiwan5168 3 года назад

more character sculpts is always welcome

@infographie 5 месяцев назад

Excellent.

@YoniBoy 3 года назад

Hey, great work !

@kingtk5848 Год назад

This video was SO HELPFUL. I have a question, if you are mainly interested in retopology of the face which of these options would be the best and save the most time? The cost of these options isn’t a factor.

@farukTheProBro 2 года назад

Huge thanks for video

@Smash_ter Год назад

When using Quad Remesher if you're making a character uncheck "detect hard edges by angle". If not it messes with the edgeflow of an organic model. The biggest downside imo is no edgeflow control, and the plug in hasn't received any new updates since 2020.

@EricTViking 2 года назад

Quad Remesher is great - well worth the money. It doesn't do what you want 100% of the time, but more often than not it will get you the results you need with a couple of clicks. There are loads of times it's turned what would be hours of work into seconds.

@paulorodriguez6288 3 года назад

dang, i gotta try Bsurf, looks like exactly what i want

@TheGuardianofAzarath 4 месяца назад

There's also one called G-retopo (I think) which uses the grease pencil for retopology, from the look of it, it seems to function similar to retopoflow (which I may consider picking up). Overall, a rather nice look at some retopo tools here, topoflow definitely looks the most user-friendly.

@jessicabernstein6185 2 года назад

great tutorial

@eliaslns7143 3 года назад

Cool ❤️🔥

@SkSafowan 3 года назад

very Helpfull

@KatlinSchirmer 3 года назад

Thanks dear.

@CGBit 3 года назад

NICE !

@user-kv5ee6ou6q 2 года назад

Very clear and useful video, thanks a lot!

@brolybroly3836 3 года назад

Nice!

@njdotson 2 года назад

Poly build looks quite a bit better to use compared to regular extruding and filling I haven't tried it yet

@yezzzsir 3 года назад

@3:15 where you talk about decimating then retopo on the decimated sculpt. Can I clarify that you do not have to delete your Hi res sculpt to stop lagging, just hide it while you retopo over the lower decimated mesh to deal with lagging issues?

@grabbitt 3 года назад

That's correct

@euginejoseph7685 3 года назад

Thank you

@sillyninja65 Год назад

retopoflow is exactly what im looking for

@henryvasquez1814 2 года назад

Hey Grant, great video as usual. Quick question, should I which one would you get first: Quad Remesher or RetopoFlow? your opinion is highly appreciated.

@grabbitt 2 года назад

Quad remesher is my favourite

@henryvasquez1814 2 года назад

@@grabbitt Thank you!!

@kruth6663 Год назад

Adaptive size is great, most auto retopo tools tend to waste too many polys on large planar surfaces, like the pectorals on this one. Though in this video's example it doesn't look quite adaptive enough, I wonder how far can it go. A big part of the reason I want to use auto retopo tools is that I don't want to calculate and reroute the edge flows between different parts myself, it's one of the most annoying part of modeling to me.

@SnortingBaguette 3 года назад

Nice, but is there a chance we'll see a vid like this about animation addons in the future?

@grabbitt 3 года назад

Yeah probably🙂👍

@plachenko 3 года назад

You didn't mention it but the softwrap plugin seems extremely useful. I haven't used it though.

@zaidkiwan5168 3 года назад

what's the tool you use for knowing how much faces are there in an object?

@grabbitt 3 года назад

Overlays. Statistics

@thecanaeggplant2937 3 года назад

Teach me master!!

@GoreShift 2 года назад

I'm eyeing with the Quad Remesher for models for a game I'm making since it basically does all the work, especially since it's from the same guy that made the ZRemesher and that worked quite wonders. You said it's not that ideal for games, why is that? I really want to use that tool haha^^

@grabbitt 2 года назад

It depends on the game actually. If you don't mind it not fully optimised it's really good

@markholley1997 3 года назад

I've subscribed to Quad Remesher, but in the couple of models I've remeshed I have a problem. The topology looks great, but there's an issue where if you select an edge loop, it "spirals" around the model. It makes it impossible to UV map the model. I contacted Exoside and they said that it was a known issue called "spiraling" and that there was no automatic way around it - no setting in Quad Remesher to make anything all better.

@Zeriel00 2 года назад

This makes it very difficult to animate. What you could do is delete the joints and make the loops yourself and maybe re-use a mesh for the hands. The face would still be a problem, this is why auto retopology never works.

@crowdemon_archives 2 года назад

Zbrush's Zremesh does that too sometimes. Only way to fix it is to redo the loop sadly.

@Zeriel00 2 года назад

A good alternative is using the Retopoflow add on for Blender. You can get it for free in Github. This is not auto Retopo and it will take you a bit to learn the tools but it allows you to quickly make edge loops by draging a line around the mesh. You can only use automatic retopology on stuff that is hard surface or not animated.

@sherlockhomes9919 Год назад

@@Zeriel00 retopoflow free? Where? I only see paid addon for retopoflow.

@nealcaffrey4837 3 года назад

Thanks a lot, all my sculpts are meant for animation, i'm wonder if the quadremesher is good for that, i mean, retopo is a time consuming, i'm spending about 5-6 hours per character ahah

@grabbitt 3 года назад

It's pretty good but it's not optimal. Retopologise is better for that but if you need to be quick and it's not going into games then quad remesh er is the best

@pfeffermartin642 3 года назад

hi what setup is required to display the objectdata - facecount etc in the left top of the screen as in your video excuse my english thx

@grabbitt 3 года назад

It's in overlays

@Misericorde451 3 года назад

I've been using the Polybuild tool and a lot of time it's awkward and hard to control lol. Might give the other ones a try, especially BSurface

@grabbitt 3 года назад

yeah bsurfaces is pretty good :)

@JohnSatan 3 года назад

Use PolyQuilt

@joshua42777 9 месяцев назад

with quadrimesher you can paint where you want more polygons

@sidar87 2 года назад

Old video but PolyQuilt is also really good for manual retopo/

@Dina_tankar_mina_ord 3 года назад

I guess this is a reocurring question regarding retopopoly. but could´nt you just get a shape around your highres with a low polycount like a separet finger or leg and shrinkwrap it?

@grabbitt 3 года назад

Yes

@igotbit9454 2 года назад

Hi Grant I found the best retopology tool. You wanna know what it is? Outsourcing it.

@flyingroads3498 2 года назад

Hello again. I have a really low topo body and a much higher topo head. How to join them I'm having problems on the neck. Shadows show up when bridge them toggeter.

@grabbitt 2 года назад

the only way is to put in a scarf or similar as ideally they would match

@EnberFeres 3 года назад

bsurface is pretty cool but after i started using it, the vertices auto merges when their are "apparently" too close of each other, this is runing my experience. Is there a way to fix this (i tried disabling the "auto join" on bsurface panel)

@grabbitt 3 года назад

I've not had that problem. You can turn off auto merge in the options near the top right of your viewport

@FreyaVal 8 месяцев назад

Hi Grant Abbitt, I always use BSurface (sometime Quad Remesher) and I have a question: the plugin makes my Retopo mesh and the HP mesh objects see through (not transparent), what do I have to do to fix it? I looked on the options but couldn’t find a solution

@grabbitt 8 месяцев назад

I'm assuming that's just X Ray mode

@FreyaVal 8 месяцев назад

@@grabbitt oh i think it is, yes! I still don't know where to turn it off. Can you please tell me? (Edited: OH it's not that)

@FreyaVal 8 месяцев назад

I've solved it in Viewport Display. Finally!

@milanzeeman4454 Год назад

Grant with addon would you say you would use for retopology

@grabbitt Год назад

Quadremesh

@yilmazoguzfatih 4 месяца назад

Hello, I cannot access the Exoside website from Turkey. I connected via VPN and downloaded the add-on. However, when using "Failed to download Quad Remesher Engine (exception)." I get an error. I searched on forums and elsewhere but couldn't find any results. Can anyone with knowledge on this subject help?

@r.i.9976 2 года назад

at 4.49 narrative says voxel size will be changed to "point zero one" but it is changed to .1 on screen

@grabbitt 2 года назад

My mistake

@octanegraphics89 3 года назад

What about retopoMT?

@mixchief 3 года назад

1:29 Anyone know why Decimate mod shows different face count than the Statistics overlay?

@grabbitt 3 года назад

Should be the same as the triangle count but only when applied

@SleepyMatt-zzz 2 года назад

You should of mentioned that TESSALATOR hasn't been updated in over a year. It doesn't work past Blender 2.8. The addon is essentially dead.

@Ifhydn 10 месяцев назад

I use retopoflow is nice one but I’m beginner at retopology so it’s kinda frustrating sometimes

@hpoasbl5941 Год назад

Hello, I recover an OBJ file from a scan. I want to make a remesh while keeping the texture. Is it possible and how? Thanks in advance.

@grabbitt Год назад

Texture baking. See my baking playlist

@hpoasbl5941 Год назад

@@grabbitt OK! Thank you. There are a lot of videos, which one should I watch? Thank you.

@grabbitt Год назад

i dont actually remember but the series will give you all the info you need and its not that long

@Belarus9000 2 года назад

if you left the creation of the retopology and did not finish, how to start again without creating a new topology? retopoflow

@grabbitt 2 года назад

You can create a new one and join it

@boinao8046 3 года назад

I have been following your tutorials in uv unrapping and texture painting......... I know this topic is a bit away from this video's topic..... But ..... Kindly do a tutorial on projection mapping a matte painting .... I tried using fspy ... But its quite difficult to use on images taken outdoors.... Like mountains , rivers , trees etc ... I dont have money to buy softwares like nuke...... I have seen tutorials where organic images are projected on to the geometry in nuke using photoshop files...... So , how can we do that in blender .... Kindly do a tutorial.... Thanks in advance for making such noble tutorials for free.

@grabbitt 3 года назад

yeah i'm slowly looking into this more but it will be a while :)

@boinao8046 3 года назад

@@grabbitt thanks ..... For the reply ... I will be waiting

@urieldelarosa3276 3 года назад

This might be an obvious question, but what exactly is the point of retopology? Is it for faster renders?

@GriffinSteve15 3 года назад

Mostly used in animation. A proper topology is needed to rig the character without weird stretching and pinching. Also, yes less poly count = faster renders

@grabbitt 3 года назад

See the previous video in the play list

@JohnSatan 3 года назад

Try to animate sculpt, or rig it

@murgatroydfungus4352 2 года назад

And here I was retopologizing 50k poly models by hand and thinking this is my life now😭

@yahyabaskale8948 Год назад

@hattylaird9756 3 года назад

0:25 when you go from 2021 > 1996 graphics

@HarnaiDigital 3 года назад

Woopsie. I'm late. Sorry

@ViraLCyclopes 2 года назад

Isn't retopoflow free? they have a public GitHub which when you download the zip just works

@grabbitt 2 года назад

You can get it from there yes

@hikam9721 2 года назад

try shift + R to remesh

@hikam9721 2 года назад

and Ctrl + R to apply it

@Sigmamagic15 3 года назад

Yes, how to use video required

@alantir666 Год назад

wait a second you not making models with optimalization from beginning ? this seems like much more work to do

@bradleyejones 2 года назад

2:05 looks into your soul

@MysticMango09 4 месяца назад

Retopoflow is and was always free

@BenLe42 Год назад

Have you ever tried Jremesher?

@BenLe42 Год назад

because Quad Remesher, as AMAZING as it is, is very damn expensive.

@grabbitt Год назад

i've not tried it yet no

@BenLe42 Год назад

@@grabbitt Looking at it now it seems to use Instant Meshes, but runs them within Blender. So not dissimilar to what you've talked about here. Thanks for the video!

@grabbitt Год назад

@@BenLe42 nice

@Metarig Год назад

why not zbrush core and zremesher

@grabbitt Год назад

I probably should have specified that this is meant for Blender users, hence the logo on the thumbnail

@Metarig Год назад

@@grabbitt well it's free so it makes sense to be included

@grabbitt Год назад

@@Metarig I'll have to look into them

@peter486 Год назад

seperate part then run a quad remesh you are gona get a even better result.

@chomsky72 Год назад

at $86 Retopoflow is very steep in price. I do have Speedretopo but haven't played with it.

@ojas-tiwari 3 года назад

I quit most of my projects on the retopology stage.

@grabbitt 3 года назад

then quadremesh is the one for you :)

@ojas-tiwari 3 года назад

@@grabbitt Thanks! I will give it a try :)

@JohnSatan 3 года назад

Where PolyQuilt? Native modeling tools, looptools, polyquilt and some topology knowledge is everything you need to make retopology fast and easy.

@owenrichards1418 3 года назад

"Dirty topology" (rubs thighs).

@Thefenlandpilot 3 года назад

Anyone using Speedretopo?

@chaosordeal294 Год назад

I just had a look at this -- it seems like mostly it just adds a menu for processes already built into Blender. I wouldn't pay for that, but for $5, it's not a terrible value.

@Zeriel00 2 года назад

Retopology on Blender is a mess and I hope they would take a look at it. Right now it requires way too many settings that are all over the place and the polybuild tool is an exercise in frustration. It also has no quick easy way to attach edges and the auto merge can merge unwanted vertices. Blender needs to fix this, put all the tools into one place and make it easy to use and user friendly.