Alternative to Poly reduction for high poly. Is anyone aware of some 3rd party tool that would help automate poly reduction while still. Reddit for Android. Jan 24, 2018 - Dragon Ball Z Budokai Hd Collection Soundtrack Download Igi 5 System Requirements Poly Reduction Tool C4droid Aerosmith Greatest.

Well, I see some answers here, but please give this one a look too, as it directly relates to decimation in Blender and Sculptris, and a VERY new cool method in another app;-) Not that there are plenty of other apps and means with which to decimate a mesh. First Blender: In blender you can use the poly reducer script as Bampf mentioned, AND/OR, which I prefer many times more than the poly-reducer script, use the DECIMATE MODIFIER on your object, it allows for dynamic-non-destructive poly decimation, that can be applied on export of your FBX automatically, or applied and save in you.blend itself. The Decimate modifier allows for you to tweak a dial and see the reduction results presented to you in the 3D View. If you havent tried the DECIMATE MODIFIER, please give it a whirl, its VERY USEFUL.

There are other ways as well, as mentioned, I'd usually take the hard route of retopo-ing for realtime export, so the reduction happens where I need it. Second Sculptris: The awesomeness that is Sculptris has one of the greatest sculpting 'brushes' on the market IMO, that brush is the REDUCTION BRUSH(Hot key 'Y'). In Sculptris, with the REDUCTION BRUSH, you can PAINT IN POLY REDUCTION!!!!! Yes thats right you can, paint in the poly reduction where you see fit on your mesh, in realtime! I use this tool for lowering poly counts for various meshes in my pipelines, AND reducing poly counts on 3D prints(STL, etc). Using the reduction brush allows for complete control as to where and how much reduction you would like on your mesh, all the while being able to watch the poly count in the info panel as you paint down the amount of polys in your mesh(until you hit your target-count).

Thank you Sculptris!!! There is also the 'reduce selected' option in sculptris, which can be useful too. No disrespect to the awesome decimation-master in ZBrush, I use it often too. Third!?!?!?!?!?!?: Yes, for me, and my pipelines, there is a third method that rocks now for this very purpose. It's called AUTO-RETOPO. You heard it right, an application called '3D Coat' has just added the ability to auto-retopo your mesh with a targeted poly-count.

I cannot state how invaluable this is(for non-lead characters that need to be rigged). The results are useful for me in about 90% of cases, with NO WORK NEEDED, and a severely optimized poly count I get to designate with full symmetrical mirroring of my mesh!!! For anyone not familiar with this, it is just that useful! You can even add strokes for 'hints' as to where the auto-retopo will create the poly-flow! There is a free 30-day trial available.

For realtime- this has become my new go to means of clean retopo-ing of non-lead-rigged-actors in my realtime work. Check out a video of the auto-retopo feature at the top of this page. It's a pretty broad question but in short: Follow modeling best practices, for example: 1.) Try to maintain quads while modeling 2.) Have a target poly/vertex count in mind while modelling 3.) Use normal maps to simulate mesh complexity whenever possible/practical 4.) Use a high poly low poly projection to create normal maps. 5.) Avoid boolean operations as they always screw your quads up. 6.) Combine meshes and reduce materials/UV sets whenever possible - this is more of a Unity or game engine consideration as it will reduce drawcalls if a mesh only uses one UV set. As far as Sculptris goes - if it's anything like Mudbox - it's gonna be highpoly no matter what.

I mean Mudbox does give you different projection levels but unless you only use the highpoly model to create a normal map, the models created by sculpting programs are usually insanely high poly. And prolly 1000's more.

Click to expand.Zremesher is definitely great. I've made also some tests with it.

But keep in mind it pays only off for slightly higher polycounts starting around 5000. For extremely low poly stuff, you could go with one of the available mesh reducer like Meshlab which is free. Simplygon is also working on a Unity plug-in afaik. Another free one is Blender, which has a decimate modifier. But their reduce algorithm is not that optimized and most resulting meshes are far from perfect, when it comes to character, or hard surface.

True, though I feel like if you are making LODs for a game, then things below 3,000 tris will be pretty far away, so in that case something like mesh lab might be best and edgeloops might not be as important. Or I think a good way to go about it would be to use Zbrush to get down to around 5,000 with the edgeloops it creates, then from there you can do things by hand if edge loops are important. You could start by collapsing edge loops and whatnot. If you are doing things for LODs then facial edgeloops will probably be less of a concern because of the distance of the models, facial animations wouldn't show through anyways so even decimation through Mesh Labs or the decimation tool in Blender wouldn't be so bad. The only thing is that anything like Blender's decimation, mesh lab polycruncher and the like really only try to remove polygons, without thinking of the overall geometry, leading to really unfriendly geometry for animations. So if you are going for LODs for static objects, then Mesh Lab is the cheapest software you can get for the best results. If you are working with characters I would suggest Zbrush's remeshing tool and then if need be, lower the polycount more manually.