OkTopo Remesher, developed by Yegor Kumachov, is a paid Blender add-on focused on automating head retopology. By placing a few markers and running the tool, it produces quad-based meshes with proper loops and UVs. The goal is to deliver production-quality topology quickly, eliminating much of the manual work usually required in traditional retopology.
Main Features
- One-click retopology: place a few markers and generate a clean quad-based head mesh.
- Clean topology: consistent edge flow ready for animation, rigging, and blendshapes.
- Automatic UV unwrapping: usable UV maps generated instantly for texturing and baking.
- Game-ready meshes: low-poly output suitable for real-time applications such as games, AR/VR, or interactive media.
- Works with different styles: compatible with both stylized sculpts and realistic scans.
- Minimal interface: focused on speed with a small, efficient set of tools.
OkTopo is aimed at artists working with high-resolution sculpts or 3D scans who need to turn them into optimized meshes quickly. The add-on uses marker placement to determine where loops are most important, ensuring clean edge flow in areas such as the eyes and mouth.
Because topology and UVs are generated in the same process, the resulting meshes can be shaded, textured, or rigged immediately. Artists can also control the polygon density depending on whether the final asset is intended for games, animation, or offline rendering.
This workflow reduces the amount of time spent on repetitive retopology tasks, allowing character artists to concentrate on sculpting and design while still achieving consistent, production-ready results.
Planned Features
The developer has announced upcoming additions including full-body retopology, exclusion zones, editable guides, custom topology presets, and automatic texture baking. These updates point toward OkTopo evolving into a more complete retopology solution.
Requirements
- Blender 3.6 or higher
- Compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux
Some Alternatives
Quad Remesher is a well-known automatic quad remeshing algorithm available across different DCC applications, including Blender, often used for fast auto-retopology. RetopoFlow (with v4 currently in beta), developed by Orange Turbine, is a comprehensive set of interactive tools for Blender that allow artists to create clean mid- or low-poly meshes on top of high-resolution sculpts or scans with greater control. Finally, QRemeshify is a free Blender extension made by Ksami which offers an easy-to-use remesher that generates quad topology, based on the QuadWild algorithm with a Bi-MDF solver.
✨ You can get the OkTopo Remesher add-on for Blender through the Superhive market.
✨ You can get the OkTopo Remesher add-on for Blender through the Superhive market.
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