Retopology

Houdini makes it easy to create clean, production-ready topology with precision and control. Use TopoBuild to generate smooth, evenly spaced quads with powerful quad remeshing tools that streamline your workflow and keep your models animation-ready.

Quad Remesh Enhancements

H21 The improved quad remeshing tool generates clean, adaptive topology with sharp edges, smooth edge flow, and evenly distributed quads that follow the natural curvature of both hard-surface and organic models.

Remesh Levels

H21 The remeshing tool preserves both hard and soft features, maintaining clean, adaptive topology and smooth edge flow even when reducing a high-resolution sculpt down to lower polygon counts.

Quad Remesh

This node builds a mesh of quads with the same shape as the input surface, but as quads and better edge flow. The higher the target number of polygons, the better the shape of the output can match the shape of the input.

Topoflow

Topo Flow extends the Topo Transfer retopology workflow to 4D processing of scanned geometry with texture alignment. After you create a template mesh from the neutral reference scan with Topo Transfer, use Topo Flow to capture additional poses from associated scans.

Topo Transfer

Topo-transfer now supports the ability to bring non manifold geometry along with the main mesh. Geometry like eyeballs, gums and teeth can be included in the process to help you transfer all the geometry in a single step.

Topo Transfer

Transfer one topology to match the shape of an existing model, even a high res model using guides to connect the geometry to the correct points on the template.

Polydraw

Topobuild

As Polydraw you can create geometry from scratch using this node. This will include drawing polygons and making edits. This tool includes several modes such as Build, Slide, Cut, Brush, Smooth and Skin.

This node is also useful when you have a very high-resolution model and want to create a much lower-resolution model from it. You can draw the quads of the new mesh by hand, automatically snapping the corners to the existing surface.