Polyreducer Experiments

remus

You could even just place the high poly components on another layer and have some dummy components on a layer and jsut switch between them for low poly/high poly.

Teezer

Wow, that's quite impressive! I'll certainly buy a copy...

solo

Awesome addition to your arsenal of must have plugins, well done mate.

chippwalters

Geez Dale-- prolific is the word which comes to mind. Great stuff!

Mike Lucey

Hi Dale, Well done! This will be a very useful plug-in.

Just a thought! Most of the time when I use a poly reducer
program, its because the model is so large that I have trouble
bringing it into SU in the first place.

Mike

linea

Ah good point Mike

Burkhard

I dreamt about a poly reducer that reduced by a slider, like an undo - redo function.
So I can place high poly objects into my scene, reduce them for the workflow and redo it by fixed renderscene - instead of replacing ....but it's just a dream

kwistenbiebel

Hi Dale (Whaat),

I love this idea of a SU polyreducer.

Some thoughts about this from a user perspective:

Is it possible to have the plugin both as a standalone as being an add-on to Subsmooth?
That would reduce the amount of plugins in my menus...
It would be great if the polyreducer could be combined with a proxy/instancing system so the low poly version can be used as proxy for high poly components.(The one in skindigo is a great start for that..). I am not sure if it is possible to make a 'universal renderable' proxy/instancing system no matter which render engine is used.
It would be great if we could 'context click' (=right click) to use the commands of your plugins. I kind of miss this in the subsmooth plugin. (I know I can assign a key to a command but still...)

Cheers and good luck with the plugin. Looking good so far.

Kwistenbiebel.

Whaat

@pixero said:

Looks interesting. What about keeping UVs for correct texturing?

I can maintain material assignment but I don't think it will be possible to keep the UVs looking right. We'll see...

Bryden

Looks like a great plugin This is better than remodeling a low polygon version of a model ive made. I will have many uses for this.

GUNAWAN W

so this a teast after smooth&subdive

boofredlay

Excellent. I look forward to this one.

huyvuvn

wonderful

mariocha

Yeah great work !! Subdivide & Smooth is really a winer.
Can't wait to try Polyreducer.
euh,... the plugin is not out yet, right?
Cause I can't find it.