Last but not lease, the Loops tool does exactly what it advertises - insert and slide loops. Just select the boundary edge and click F to fill! You can shift select to toggle which vertices should be regarded as corners, so it’s flexible enough to work for a lot more than basic rectangular shapes. Large areas can be filled in all at once using the Patches too. It pushes and pulls the geometry like a sculpt brush in a way that’s fast, fluid, and intuitive.

It’s not particularly fun to select and then move vertices around one by one, so if you need to do some adjusting then reach for the Tweak tool. Controls for what mesh features it tries to correct are adjustable so that you can use it in a wide variety of situations. It behaves just like a sculpting brush, except that it keeps all vertices snapped to the high poly geometry and shifts them towards a clean layout. Gently massage your geometry into evenly-spaced-quad perfection with the Relax tool. Quickly create more complex cuts into existing geometry using the Knife tool. PolyPen will automatically snap to other vertices and edges, and can even be used as a knife to make basic cuts. Select an edge, hold Ctrl, and click to extend the selection with triangles, quads, or both. Sometimes you need to be more precise and deliberate, so PolyPen is built to give you maximum control over fine details. As always, every single vertex is snapped to the surface of the high poly mesh without you having to do the whole 'move it and then immediately cancel so it actually snaps' rigmarole that comes with automatically placed geometry in regular Edit Mode. Or, you can draw out from a vertex to extend your selection to match the curve of the stroke. Drawing out a single line will place a row of selected edges, and drawing another stroke roughly parallel to the first will connect the two with an even grid of interpolated quads. To quickly extend your main loops or define grids in larger areas, switch to the Strokes tool.

Everything is automatically snapped to the surface so you can focus on what’s important - the perfect placement of your key loops. The best part? You can also use PolyStrips to manipulate any selection of quads like a Bezier curve. The size of the polygons is determined by the brush size, and you can easily add or remove segments by holding shift and scrolling after a loop is placed. You can even draw over multiple sections of existing geometry to connect them all. It can be an extension of or connection between existing topology or a brand new strip depending on where you start and stop your stroke. Just hold Ctrl and left click to draw out a strip. Quickly sketch to define your most important loops with PolyStrips. Contours gets it right where other tools routinely fail because our advanced algorithm walks the loops around the mesh instead of using Blender’s screen space snapping. In the example above, notice how it wraps perfectly around the finger, even though there are other fingers directly behind it. You can easily adjust how many segments it has by holding shift and scrolling. Just hold Ctrl and left click drag, and a loop will wrap around the high poly surface. With Contours, you can quickly place and adjust loops around any cylindrical form. Here’s a quick intro to the power of each new tool you’ll be getting: They make good topology practices like evenly spaced quads the default rather than the exception. The tools in RetopoFlow mode are designed to be used by artists, and make the retopology process more like quick sketching and less like monotonous pointing and clicking. Thank you! ~ Daniel Bystedt, senior character artist The developers are passionate and are always finding new ways to make the addon better. That’s why we set out to do something that few thought was even possible - make retopology actually fun :D RetopoFlow is my favorite tool for manual retopology among all the different software that I have tried. Quality retopology is essential for efficient rigging, animation, texturing, and even rendering, but we also know from years of experience that it can often be a tedious chore. Just jump into RetopoFlow mode and get started! Built for artists, by artists No more messing with shrinkwrap, object scale, snapping, mesh visibility, displacement, or mirror settings. RetopoFlow mode’s custom mesh rendering is currently the only way in Blender to see low poly geometry cleanly overlaid on a high poly mesh without overlap, distortion, or depth sorting issues.

The separate mode helps us not only get more information about the models than Blender can give by default (so our tools can work more effectively than anything else available today), but also to display the geometry in a more helpful manner. RetopoFlow is a full retopology mode for Blender that helps make quick work of creating custom, clean, mid or low poly meshes on top of high resolution sculpts. The comprehensive retopology toolkit for Blender

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