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Not for the sake of full productions, but for SL (and daz3d where I come from) content perhaps, I've seen this workflow used with blender and seen perfect edge loops that go around, and others who did end up with spiralling edges that go on a journey lol The topo tool in MD allows you to add edge loops just fyi!

Agreed, the automatic version without working on it after does not work at all for providing a cleaner workflow. Also, this is close to that MD > ZBRUSH > Maya workflow lots of people use but with blender: Forward to 7:30 onwards for the zbrush version, for those who really really would like to skip any manual retopology and are happy enough to accept the one this spits out into blender. Cheers

@Kyrah Abattoir @OptimoMaximo I think you both misunderstood me. I'm simply talking about using the manual topology tool inside MD, does it matter where you do the manual retopology? Surely it's faster to do the retopology on the 2D flat pieces over snapping it to the model inside blender? When you can manually lay it out in the 2D pattern view and see where it's ending up on the 3D view next to you in MD. I'm not talking about just changing the model automatically to quads or using the remesh feature then saving it as is, that's terrible!

You know all this retopo can also just be done inside MD using the topology tool on the 2D pattern pieces? Then just use the 3D view to your left to make sure everything is lining up from seam to seam. Then duplicate the mesh and sew together, export thin/welded OBJ and you have nice topology with welded seams inside blender. They've also released a remesh topology option which creates a quaded editable topology before the mesh is made with a few triangles that you can fix up, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxZEAK_g2o&feature=emb_title cheers