Get a 20% Discount on This Blender Add-on for Drawing Retopology Right on the Sculpt
NKZ Retopia by Eduardo Bartali handles all the repetitive steps, including vertex placement and quad grid creation, while leaving edge loops for you to adjust.
NKZ Retopia is a Blender add-on for drawing retopology straight on the sculpts. It was developed by Eduardo Bartali, also known as netkingZ, based on his own character work for games, VR, and real-time projects. It allows you to automate repetitive steps like vertex placement while ensuring precision by allowing you to fine-tune the mesh using Precise Draw, Circular Cap, and other tools.
Overall, the add-on includes 15 tools for creating clean meshes. Draw is the primary one: with it, you can quickly map out the edges of a region, and Retopia will recognize the shape and fill it with an ordered quad grid. You can then preview it, drag the corners, adjust the density, and only then, when it looks good to you, hit Apply.
Using Spine, you can create meshes for cylindrical shapes like arms and fingers. All you need to do is draw one line along an element you need to retopologize, and every ring of the tube covering it with a mesh is created at once.
By using Smart Symmetry, you can create perfectly even meshes. Retopia will find the true center of your sculpt, even when an object on one side of the model creates visual asymmetry. You can keep the mirror as a see-through preview when working on your mesh to see how well one side matches the other.
With Analysis, you can quickly check how healthy your topology is. It shows a green-red-yellow quality map, highlights all the poles, triangles, and n-gons in your mesh, and displays a progress bar for a predetermined polygon limit if you set one.
Here are some more of Retopia's key features:
- Precise Draw and Strip: build whole regions, single quads, or bands of quads with simple strokes;
- Subdivision Preview: see the subdivided result live on the sculpt, without applying anything;
- Fill Patterns: switch between Grid, 3 Poles, 5 Poles, and Fan with Tab before confirming;
- Relax: a brush that ensures no folds or overlapping faces appear in your mesh.
Retopia uses standard geometry, meaning that the result is a normal Blender mesh that you can continue working on with any other tool. It runs locally and is fully offline. The add-on is compatible with Blender 4.5 or newer versions. You can get it on Superhive with a 20% discount using our code RETOPIA80LV.
