Maya Smooth

davecodex

Hi all,

I have modeled a canon with roughly 19k tris and there where parts of the canon that had 3 on them (Smooth Preview), now when I applied smooth to the meshes that I had 3 on them i now have a count of 45k tris at lvl_1.
Is there any way to get lower than that in terms of tris and still have that smoothness of that preview thank you

GlowingPotato

Try using the reduce tool Mesh>reduce.

davecodex

That Worked fine not as i wanted but thank you it helped a lot

a.marlowe696

Use the reduce tool sparingly. If I have a really high poly object and don't feel like doing a retopo from scratch I will use reduce, but it still takes some manual removing of edges to get it where you want it to be.

davecodex

Yeah i did noticed that you have to do some manual adjustments, thanks for the tip