poly reducer

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:57 pm

I heard once of a poly reducer somewere out there does anyone know were I could find it?

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:24 pm

Here ya go.

http://www.vizup.com/load/index.html

I don't use programs like this (Hah, I'm not good at modelling yet =p) but it sounds like the Decimation tool in Blender.

gekido · Post by **gekido** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:30 am

Nvidia has a free tool called 'Melody' that can be used for poly reduction as well as normal map generation (takes high poly models & generates detail normal maps for lower poly models).

Requires pixel shader 2.0 support at minimum, but it's freely available.

check http://developer.nvidia.com for the download (iirc)

Spyrewolf · Post by **Spyrewolf** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:09 am

also for milkshape users there is the directX mesh tool in the option use this to reduce the amount of poly's....

unless you have a 15000+models you're probally better off doing it by hand cos, Poly reducers take a guess at where they should be optimized, instead of what should really be optimized...

Dreben · Post by **Dreben** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:02 pm

Yeah, I downloaded that head that was SLOW so I removed the hair and started turning couples of triangles into polygons, now works about 5 times faster, and I'm just beginning.