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Sureal Chris
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Does anyone know where I can download a poly reduction tool? Maybe an earlier version of Melody as the current version doesn't do it anymore.
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Silvester
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Posted: 24th Aug 2006 17:31
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you can BUY one from TGC as what i remember.

FPSC-Toolkit in the make.Progress log:
FPSC-Segments 35%---FPSC-Entity 's 0%---FPSC-Signs 0%
FPSC-Decals 0%---FPSC Characters 0%
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Medieval Coder
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Posted: 24th Aug 2006 17:33
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I think he means a free polygon reduction tool...

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Silvester
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Posted: 24th Aug 2006 17:36 Edited at: 24th Aug 2006 17:37
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there arent any as what i know that are free...

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i hate capslock...i just hate it.

FPSC-Toolkit in the make.Progress log:
FPSC-Segments 35%---FPSC-Entity 's 0%---FPSC-Signs 0%
FPSC-Decals 0%---FPSC Characters 0%
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Sureal Chris
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Posted: 24th Aug 2006 17:41
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Aye, a free one would be most appreciated.

None? Crap. I'd rather not do it all by hand.
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Silvester
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welcome to the harsh world of the reality...

FPSC-Toolkit in the make.Progress log:
FPSC-Segments 35%---FPSC-Entity 's 0%---FPSC-Signs 0%
FPSC-Decals 0%---FPSC Characters 0%
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Medieval Coder
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Yep, almost everyone wants money....

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Alvarus
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Blender (free) has a built-in poly reducer called the decimator.


WIP Thread:http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=80964&b=8
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Xenocythe
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Or ya can send it to me in .obj .3DS or something at rpgmakerx2@hotmail.com and I'll reduce it for ya to whatever amount of polies you tell me.


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Sureal Chris
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with the amount of stuff, I'm tryin to reduce probably not!
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Medieval Coder
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Now what does that mean...

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Sureal Chris
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Ever played Oblivion? Ever used the Tamriel VWD mod? The one that adds all the little buildings and shrines onto the distant LOD? I'm tryin to reduce the poly counts of said buildings and shrines for a better performance.
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Medieval Coder
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I would say do this
Have LODs of each
1 being the farthest away
1- Billboard
2- Basic Shape with texture on it aka cubes
3- Starting to take shape only major details

Personally for this I would remake each model by hand.

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Sureal Chris
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Posted: 24th Aug 2006 19:08
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My modelling skills arnt good enough that would resemble their close-up counterparts. Sure going in and manually deleting polys is a very long process, at least I'll be able to use the original texture afterwards.
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Posted: 25th Aug 2006 20:58
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Send it to me at BiggAdd@Hotmail.co.uk

I have a pretty good Polygon Reducer. Wont take two ticks.

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Sureal Chris
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Posted: 26th Aug 2006 16:40
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Thanks for the offer BigAdd, but, as I've said, I've got a reasonable amount to reduce.
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BiggAdd
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 05:47 Edited at: 27th Aug 2006 05:58
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What do you mean? Reasonable amount of Models? Or Polygons?

I reduced a 1 million polygon Sphere, Just Now, To a 500 polygon Sphere. Worked perfectly Fine.

Here I'll even give you a wire-frame comparison!



Not Much to See Realy.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Aug 2006 12:34
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Thats just a black circle you drew, its not really a model, I bet you're lying Nah just kidding. So I see the newer C4D's have a good poly reducer, cool.

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You might have one aswell. Its actualy in the Deformer Menu. If you have one.

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Sureal Chris
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Yeah, I've got 25 .nifs, but each is made up of more than one mesh, so it could be quite alot of stuff to de-poly.
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Quote: "You might have one aswell. Its actualy in the Deformer Menu. If you have one."


I don't, I checked after seeing it in the 9.5 demo.

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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 17:19
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you shouldn't use a poly reducer, do it by hand

I don't have a sig, live with it.
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 19:26
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I would rather use a reducer if my models were in the millions of polygons.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 28th Aug 2006 23:43
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you should hope it doesn't get that high, I would only expect that with high detailed displacement maps, even then proggies with that in are able to put it back down to its original poly count .

But poly reducers and other 'clean-up' tools are useful for the quick little bits, I use iron, its a tool that does its favours, but I could live with out it by working manually...saying that, there is quite a lot you can do manually...but some of it isn't quite worth the time. But poly reducer's probaly jumble up some of the geometry.

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