Retopo Planes

Retopo clothes without losing details or breaking a sweat!

Blender 4.2+ compatible

Update 1.5 - Planes Assist & more

New Initialize Planes feature to kick off retopo instantly

New Auto Fill feature will create cuts across all connected patterns automatically

See full release notes in documentation (scroll down)

Update 1.2 - Symmetry Support + Thickness & more

See full release notes in documentation (scroll down)

Guide retopo using simple planes

• Retopology based on source garment's UVs
• Constant feedback from flexible GUI
• Automatically adjusted density of connected patterns
• Built in snapping for precision

Manual density control

Additional control using edge crease & edge sharp

Keep details with subdivs & UVs

Ready for further sculpting and texturing

And more

• Select seams to seperate patterns using Edge Bevel Weight
• Relax lowpoly mesh
• Convert 3D garment to flat patterns
• Handles any shape of patterns also with darts
• Fit UVs to 1st tile
• Speed - source garment polycount doesn't matter

Link to documentation below (Scroll down)

See also:

Documentation:

https://nodesinteractive.com/retopo-planes/

Release Notes:

Update 1.5 – Compatible with Blender 4.2+

Vid: https://youtu.be/Syk78-ZEXsc

• New feature – Planes Assist with Initialize Planes, Auto Fill & Output Generated Planes options for automated planes and cuts generation. 
• New feature – Separate Patterns in Subdiv & Reproject will split final retopo into separate mesh islands by patterns.
• New UI Debug – Mismatch Lines – for easier navigation around the retopo.
• New debug material color modes (Patterns, Parts, Retopo Planes, None).
• New debug to indicate if 'Simplify’ is turned on in 3DtoPatterns.
• Scale GUI and Offset 3D Cloth (previously Slide Cloth) moved to the top to be more easily accessible.
• Auto Density debug „Add more cuts” is gone since now Auto Density will work in every scenario.
• Snapping will no longer merge vertices of planes together. Now Snapping (controlled by Snapping Distance) will only snap vertices to border of patterns. This should make this tool more stable – less often exploding mesh.
• Upgraded look of modifier thanks to panels in new geometry nodes.
• Fixed issue where single-face planes would influence density of edges of other planes.
• Fixed issue where circular polyloop density would be inflenced by overall density of rest of the retopo.

Update 1.2 – Compatible with Blender 4.0+

Vid: https://youtu.be/y6PtSxaDGO8

• Added support for symmetrical and mirrored patterns (details in paragraph 'Mirrored Patterns’ below)
• Added thickness (experimental)
• New Point Guide UI
• Option to not smooth UVs
• Fix: Simplify in 3DtoGarments was causing artifacts in retopo in some cases

Update 1.1 – Compatible with Blender 4.0+

• Added support for circular patterns/holes

• Added debug notifying when face of retopo plane is not a quad