replacing pipes with splines?

Olli.

does anyone know of a tool or good method to replace pipes with splines?, The pipes I have have super irregular topology, (its from CAD), and I need to make them game-engine-friendly and reduce the polycount as well. Theres a buttload of them so itd be nice to know if theres a tool or something out there that can help

Eric Chadwick

What software are you using? If you can select edge loops, that's the fastest way to convert to splines.

Olli.

yeah im using 3ds max but the mesh is very bad, its mostly tris and very irregular, so cant select edge loops.

Eric Chadwick

Which version of Max? Pro tip... put all your software info in your first post, helps people help you.

You can try to quadrify the meshes, see if you can get decent loops. There's no other way I know of to convert triangle soup into splines.

Can you get the original CAD formatted files? If DWG, Max can handle those and preserve spline data.

cptSwing

Once you've cleaned the mesh a little, this might help: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84832