Poly reducing app

MFS

Is there any that work good? Because i modeled a hi poly model and need it reduce but no way i could do normals map for this model.

KyleJensen

How did you go about making this high poly of yours?

Cap Hotkill

Depends of what kind of model you have, have you made a very organic model, and you dont care about the mesh because its 100% organic and you wont animate it? Use Decimation master from Zbrush and Reduce it to whatever you want, but if you have a Hard surface model, and you want to make it lower.. there little hope my friend, since most Polycrunchers out there are not very good at keeping clean edges and shapes. I recommend you to use a Retopology app like Topogun if you dont know how to make a proper low poly model.

sltrOlsson

If you just need to get the tris count you can use meshlab, it's free and works great on organic stuff.. I actually think it wirks with hardsurface to some extent to.

Say you want something from 1m to 100k. It's not really for making lowpoly models..

MephistonX

if your using max 2010 onwards i think, apply the pro optimize modifyer it works perfectly for this

VidGameDude

MephistonX wrote: »

if your using max 2010 onwards i think, apply the pro optimize modifyer it works perfectly for this

yeah but where do you find it?
got a link? cause i cant seem to find it in google search ¬_¬

madmuffin

There is a program called Meshlab that is free and has a function called 'Quadratic Edge Decimation' that I have always used and found to work best for me.

sltrOlsson is right though, it's not for making lowpoly just reducing your polys to an importable level from highpoly sculpts, at least that's what I use it for.

MFS

I use blender 3d. Will mesh lab work with it?

gibson543

yeah, meshlab is a standalone app just import the mesh and then export it back

KyleJensen

VidGameDude wrote: »

yeah but where do you find it?
got a link? cause i cant seem to find it in google search ¬_¬

Have you tried looking in the modifiers list in 3DsMax? ¬_¬

MFS

Will mesh lab effect how the model looks?

gibson543

well of course, its taking the polycount down, it'll try to keep the shiloette. but thats why normal maps were created.

MFS

Ok thank you all for your time and help.

Fuse

I will second Meshlab. It does a pretty good job of maintaining the model definition.