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    • W Offline
      Whaat
      last edited by

      Here's what I'm working on right now. It's a bit buggy and far too slow but it seems to work pretty good. Each statue is reduced to 75% of the vertices in the adjacent statue.


      hebe1.jpg


      hebe2.jpg


      hebe3.jpg

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      • W Offline
        watkins
        last edited by

        Dear Dale,

        If you keep this up you're going to get a bit of a reputation. Well, more of a reputation.

        An excellent development! You are to be congratulated on your skill.

        Kind regards,
        Bob

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        • fredo6F Offline
          fredo6
          last edited by

          Extremely impressive how you master this domain of 3D modelling!
          I am sure you'll make many Sketchuper happy, especially when importing from other 3D software.

          Fredo

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          • PixeroP Offline
            Pixero
            last edited by

            Looks interesting. What about keeping UVs for correct texturing?

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            • L Offline
              linea
              last edited by

              whaat

              That is great. To be able to do this natively in SU will be very useful. I've tried a few poly reduction apps but haven't had reliable results with SU models.

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              • StinkieS Offline
                Stinkie
                last edited by

                Pretty cool. ๐Ÿ‘

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                • J Offline
                  Jon
                  last edited by

                  You've gotta be kidding. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
                  They don't even offer this (much needed) feature in Blender, C4D, or mudbox.
                  Awesome work!! ๐Ÿ˜

                  Jon
                  KT Team member

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                  • R Offline
                    remus
                    last edited by

                    Whaat, you seem to be a one man coding machine! is there nothign he cant do ๐Ÿ˜„

                    http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                    • erikBE Offline
                      erikB
                      last edited by

                      Whaat, amazing at what rate you keep producing these wonderfull scripts. It would be a real killer application if the mesh somehow could 'remember' its original number of vertices so that when it was exported to a real renderer (Kerkythea, Podium,Indigo,...)the original number of vertices would be exported. This 'remembering' state should ofcourse not affect the speed in SketchUp there only the simplified form would be taken in account. Probably wishfull thinking !! Anyhow, the one your making now would open up alot of (not native sketchup)components for use in Sketchup !! So keep up the good work !!
                      erikB

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                      • jujuJ Offline
                        juju
                        last edited by

                        Awesome! Don't quit this one (please), have some more $$$ here with your name on it if you bring this functionality to the SU table.

                        Save the Earth, it's the only planet with chocolate.

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                          a4chitect
                          last edited by

                          whaat please stop playing with such childish tricks, and make something more demanding on your skills and talent: reverse polyreducer (user draws a rough shape and your script turns this into a beautiful and detailed component)

                          all right, am just kidding. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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                            remus
                            last edited by

                            a4chitect: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewforum.php?f=253

                            ๐Ÿ˜†

                            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                              watkins
                              last edited by

                              Dear ErikB,

                              There is no need to reverse the process. Just save the component in its high poly form outside the model, use the poly-reducing script inside the model to speed up modelling, then re-load the high poly version before rendering. Sometimes, native Sketchup has the just the tools you need.

                              Kind regards,
                              Bob

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                                remus
                                last edited by

                                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.

                                http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                                  Teezer
                                  last edited by

                                  Wow, that's quite impressive! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ I'll certainly buy a copy... ๐ŸŽ‰

                                  Real life is just another website, albeit a rather boring one.

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                                    solo
                                    last edited by

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

                                    http://www.solos-art.com

                                    If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                    • chippwaltersC Offline
                                      chippwalters
                                      last edited by

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

                                      Currently working with Cross-Reality technologies

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                                      • Mike LuceyM Offline
                                        Mike Lucey
                                        last edited by

                                        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

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                                          linea
                                          last edited by

                                          Ah good point Mike

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                                          • BurkhardB Offline
                                            Burkhard
                                            last edited by

                                            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 ๐Ÿ˜ ....but it's just a dream ๐Ÿ˜ณ

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