What I'd like to code is: With a rigged character If I select a specific joint. I'd like to run the script, which would return the selection of polygons influenced by that specific joint. (As if I manually went into face mode and started selecting the polygons one by one) Have no idea where to start on this one. Any ideas?
I'm working on a sculpt and I decided I needed more subdivisions in order to get the details in. before I knew it though, I had 25,662,126 polys. Is that too many polygons? This piece is going to be a display piece only, so I don't have concerns about whether a game engine would be able to render it. Thanks!
Most likely if you are not adding a crazy amount of polygons and your polygons are not crazy small in screen space, then yes, go for it, It really helps the models. I think the expected number is less than 750 polygons and its free for console level UDK type stuff.
In the polygon tab there should be Reduce > Merge > Unify? If not you can select one poly by clicking on it (that'll select both overlapping polygons) then hit the down arrow key to deselect the last selected polygon, leaving you with just one, which you can delete.
You can select polygons by vertex count. On the right, go to Lists > Statistics > Polygons > By Vertex > hit the little + beside 2, to select all 2-point polygons (or enter the command "select.polygon set vertex psubdiv 2"). Then you can just delete them.
You also might want to look at the polygon flow on the "stretching" areas - they may have longer, thinner polygons causing the noise to be longer and thinner.