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3 Dimensional Chat / Highpoly char to lowpoly?

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Matic
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Posted: 30th Apr 2004 15:54
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Hi this is a long shot but i have to ask

i think i did see some people talk about making a high poly char and use that somhow to make a low poly

is there a way to do this autoatic? so i can make a highpoly man and with a scrip or somthing make it lowpoly?

i know this is far out
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Krazy Jimmy
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Posted: 30th Apr 2004 16:21
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ya with 3ds MAX you can use the command...umm... god dangit i forgot...but theres a finction where u can lower the polycount of your model it worked awesome for me...i went from 3000 to 1111....kewl huh? and it still looked great ^_^
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ok that sounds nice i use max 5.1 so i really like to know what it is called.

thx for the reply
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The Game
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Posted: 30th Apr 2004 17:24
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I think it's in the Modifier List called Optimize

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AlecM
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yes, and its something you should never use. Just model your characters at the polygon count you need them. The only decent use for optimize is to create LOD meshes. but even then you should go in an clean them up.

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Hi Matic,
My favourite tool, Polychop is an excellent free Max plugin that allows you to retain texture coordinates and lock selected vertices.
http://www.cadalyst.net/extras/plugins/Modifiermax5.html
Search the page for polychop
Its also available for other versions of max

We also sell a good polygon reduction tool called Action3d, look under the 3D Modelling tag at the top of this page.

Nvidia's melody also has a mesh reduction facility, its free, although I've had plenty of problems with it

You will probably want to clean up your mesh manually after reduction, but all of these tools are a good way of quickly reducing the resolution of a model.

Regards
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With Rhino3D you can make a NURBS model and convert it into a polygon model, and chose how much polygons you want.
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Posted: 2nd May 2004 19:28
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great thx for all the help on this
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walaber
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in Milkshape there is a "Direct X Mesh tool" or something similar, that lets you reduce the polys in your mesh. you have to fix the smoothing groups afterwords though.

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Id suggest reading the 3DS Max manual (the huge thick one that came with it) to learn the ins and outs of a very expensive and powerful program. It bewilders me to think how all these people can afford 3DS Max....its way to much for my budget!


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Matic
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well the 3dmax student version cost 300$ that is somthing i did deside to pay for a good prgram.

and yes read the manual that is a way to find out but this way i got some idea to other plugins i can use to reach my goal.
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