Reducing Vertex count while preserving UV

ecas

Hello guys,

I have a question, for a game we make in our studio I took a few items and
put them on a plane, I used spline to cut them which was fast but gave me
a lot of vertex, is there any way to reduce the vertex while still preserving the UV?

I also add an image to explain, on the left there are 493 vertex and on the right 143.
I'm looking for some script/software that can help me do it automatically. Now I do it by hand, I take the item turn it to a giant N-gon, delete vertex and triangulate.
There are about 500 of those items.

kurt_hectic

So this model has texture without alpha channel, right? That's why you want to model the shape?


Have you tried Pro optimizer from 3ds max? It could be helpful.

ecas

Thanks kurt_hectic, we don't use 3d max, but I tried to search for something similar for other maya or cinema4d and I found Polygon Cruncher that is good enough for what I need, thank you!

monster

Maya 2014 has a built in tool called Reduce under the Mesh menu.