How to optimize models in Blender?
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Hello. I used to use this method.
On the low-poly blank I added modifier "Subdivision Surface". This method is now no good for me, since lost the original geometry of the model. Recently, I learned about Declimate, but it breaks the map UV. Advise please plug-in or software for optimization.
I use Blender 2.63
On the low-poly blank I added modifier "Subdivision Surface". This method is now no good for me, since lost the original geometry of the model. Recently, I learned about Declimate, but it breaks the map UV. Advise please plug-in or software for optimization.
I use Blender 2.63
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I think you have more a general workflow problem. You have to work the other way around. Blow the mesh up where you need it, not reduce it for optimization. When you really want to reduce something then use retopology.
I´m an old box modeler. My workflow is that i model the low poly mesh first. This is both, the base for the high poly version, and also the final geometry. Then i use sculpting to create the high poly version for normalmap baking. Shrinkwrap is my friend to bring the surface of the low poly version closer to the surface of the high poly version then. Sculpting changes the spacing. And when done i start to unwrap the character and to bake the normalmap from the two meshes. This works fine for me.
The more common workflow nowadays though is to create a sculpt version first, then do a retopo to create the low poly version from. That way you have the best result and control
I think the plugin for retopo in Blender is called bsurface. You have to activate it in the addons section.