Retopology Using New Polybuild Tool in Blender 

Thanks!

wow, that's actually super handy! I've tried shift clicking other options for face / vert/ edge selection but never tried the snapping before! Thank you :)

fucking goated. thx bro

Do we still use shrinkwrap for this Polybuild method?

@@Kholaslittlespot1 You can, but I personally don't. I only use it at the end once I am happy with the geometry.

where to turn on auto merger?

Use wrap 3 program... Recommend for you., 👍🏻

@@kdmaarof8387 Not sure how would use it here, unless you do human face, where you could have same topology. Please explain what you had in mind.

Polybuild is still not as effecient as QuadDraw and has many problems including selection,snapping, visibility issues, smoothing the geo......etc in comparison it's not even 10%.

I have a question, what do you I do with the sculpted after I retopo it, do I delete or keep it.

Dumebiafra N If you’re using Maya’s Quad Draw tool, won’t the sculpt you did be replaced with the retopo-d model you made out of it? So wouldn’t it automatically make the retopo-d version the new model? Not sure about Blender. After putting this new tool into practice, I agree with some of the comments here that there still needs to be some improvements.

yea Quad draw is by far the superior option, but this one ain't far behind!

I think there is already a video for that in their channel

It'll be quicker next time!

@@FlippedNormals It sure will... But maybe by then I'll have bought RetopoFlow instead.

Is it out for 2.8 yet?

@@FlippedNormals It sure says it on the BlenderMarket page.

I also think so, but I'm not an expert.

Have you tried Bsurfaces in the add-ons ? That is just what is does.

I hope so too!

It really does work this way though. I sometimes don't see a solution, then later as you're doing something else, it suddenly either solves itself because of something else you were doing or you big brain the solution.

I believe it's to make sure the retopo mesh stays above the sculpt so you don't get any weird intersections

Just make a transparent material for it

Or try toggling Alt+Z.

@@CGPacifica or that if you wanna only see the wireframe

You can change that on the overlays panel.

Most games also add detail with the texture, So (for example) make a low poly shirt for the character but add all the folds/creases clothing has with a texture. Which, with good planning, you can also bake when you bake the normals that Tito mentioned.

Kiiinda, it's a starting point for the tool but it's still quite far away from being quad draw unfortunately

@@FlippedNormals yeah I just checked it out and there's a bunch of stuff missing

Thank you! Helps a lot! (for me I had to disable the right ctrl one, for some reason)

thankyouuuu!!!! lifesaver

Corona 🤷‍♂️

This was recorded before any Corona virus spread. So I was probably just a little tired 😅

@@FlippedNormals 👍

It's certainly possible to do it with custom written addon on python. If you are interested iirc there was a nice blender 2.8 addon development for beginner video by Jayanam on RU-vid, with some extra ones on addons from him. Also using blender console for learning methods/variables is quite useful (as it outputs same names you can use in python addon).

The "Info" editor type shows the python code for the actions you take. It can be pretty useful for making your own python scripts

Thank you both!

Dark Knight udims are simply multiple uv tiles, normally you just get one, with a 0-1 uv space, with udims you can have as many tiles as you need for your model, so like one tile for the body, one for the head, one for weapons etc. It’s don’t think it’s supported in game engines though.

gower1973 I think Unity does, or it will, support it.

@@ciaranpmryan What is a common practice if we want to create game assets and want to sell in market? dont use udims?

Dark Knight I would presume so. Using UDIM’s will limit your market.

same question here... Anybody knows what it's used for in this situation?

It does, but if your model is all quads or at least mostly quads before, the triangulation is way more controlled. And so is the Deformation when you animate it. Random tris destroy the edgeflow which is important for animation

There are only 2 ways to make 2 triangles out of a quad and both are essentially the same. I‘ve seen horrible things happening with auto triangulating huge ngons.

Sorry that this is a late response, and I'm no professional, but based on my understanding of manual retopology, the point of using a manual method over a modifier method is that decimator and remesh modifiers use algorithms and grids to create geometry without taking into account important forms of the base mesh. This might be fine for a static object, or creating a LOD (Level of Detail) mesh for a background object where it's not important to follow organic forms naturally, but this creates a huge problem for meshes you intend to animate. Based on animation, especially animating characters, the polygons have to mimic anatomical forms, that's why you see Henning here creating loops around the mouth and the eyes, since those are rounded forms on the human body, and they have important muscle structures supporting those forms, those will now be easier to animate. If you used the remesh modifier, or decimate, you wouldn't be able to control where it decides to put any of the geometry, which would lead to polygons that overlap where the muscle forms would otherwise be separated, so when you want to animate that segment of the face or body, it deforms unnaturally, and it can create very obvious visual artifacts.

I just watched the one they're talking about! It's here, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CuQzPDs99yM.html and there's another one they created which is actually a 22 minute clip of a $30 4+ hour long course they sell on their website here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OuFwUaS8y1I.html And you can find the full course in a link in the description of that video.

Texture baking, creates a normal map of the High poly sculpts face normal data according to the Low poly retopo versions UV map

Get the textures, ambient occlusion, normal map, etc etc from the high poly model -- bake all that stuff onto the low poly one. These guys didn't really explain this here. When they are making decisions about the size of the quads, and loop flow, the final outcome of the capture of the data and baking to the low poly is what they have in mind. It therefore depends a lot in what is the final form of the project

@@StringDeposit thanks

Thank you!

In this workflow, you would always keep the original mesh as a backup and as the showcase, but for animation production or gaming, you would use the low-poly mesh mixed with normal map textures which are basically faked geometry baked into a texture that render engines can use to actually fake the old geometry on the new low-poly mesh without actually costing nearly as much resources on your computer. So, you'd animate with the new mesh, and for games you'd use the new mesh because you don't want your game to slow down because you have unnecessarily high-poly models.

You shouldn't, but it's a good place to hide your mistakes

Why have an addon if it's in the base program.

@@GOODSPIDERR Ok, that makes sense. Are there cases where you'd want the details to actually be a part of the topology?

@@GOODSPIDERR awesome, thank you

Grid fill?

@@the_grass_trainer Grid fill is a tool that allows you to fill holes in a smart parallel poligones way where you can fill complex areas or more fast I can show you an example. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pJCDmPxbwgs.html

All of those amazing details on the old mesh are digitally sculpted in to create realistic forms, but since there's so many polygons that make up all of those fantastic details, animating the old mesh would be a nightmare, and extremely heavy on computers to both calculate, and render. So, when you retopologize, you're creating a much simpler form of the mesh, but the best part about this is that there's a method called normal-mapping, which allows you to turn all of the polygonal data of the original mesh into a special texture that can be applies to the low poly mesh that allows blender, and other 3D software and engines like games to fake the old geometry just using a much less taxing texture.