Any Devs using Simplygon?

low odor · Aug 2014

http://simplygon.com/unity

I know there are a few larger studios using it...what are the results like?..I'm a bit skeptical..but would love to hear user impresions ( and for whatever engine...not just Unity)

Computron · Aug 2014

Isn't this part of UDK? If it's the same thing, you could just try it out for free.

ambershee · Aug 2014

Simplygon is indeed integrated into UDK, so you can try it out there.

Personally, I don't think it's amazing, but it can be a reasonable way to make some really quick lower detail meshes for the less visible LOD levels.

ae. · Aug 2014

i use it at work all the time, its a real time saver

Goeddy · Aug 2014

i think it works pretty good and its incredibly fast too. it tries to preserve material id's and uv's wich is pretty nice.

Mask_Salesman · Aug 2014

It's great for background stuff and can work individually within instances. But it will still break normals on hardsurface types either way. It has good edge detection tho and lots of sliders heh, which is more advanced than most optimizers we've tried atleast.

HitmonInfinity · Aug 2014

We used it on Hawken (UE 3) for environment and mech lods. They're a little messy, but pretty awesome results for how easy it is. A couple gripes though, sometimes it's a little buggy, and the other thing that sucks is it makes everything a water-tight mesh. It hates planes, and wastes geo putting a cap on every open surface. So we actually ended up manually optimizing some of the bigger meshes. Still pretty good stuff though.

Cody · Aug 2014

Haven't before Drew, but going to be testing it out. Looks cool. Long time no talk buddy!

low odor · Aug 2014

Thanks for all the input

@COdy...it's been a grip....Hope all is well in fixture land...I'm working with a few small teams that this is going to be a huge time save if it works properly..the consensus seems to be positive..

meshiah · Aug 2014

they are coming into my shop to demo tomorrow i think, im more interested in this tech fore reducing draw calls,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPAEdDK1t4Q

does anybody know whats up with auto desk project kahn thing? i think if you have a subscription you can log and and use simplygon through the cloud???

Any Devs using Simplygon?

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