[Plugin] Polyreducer 0.1

solo

Dang! another excellent addition.

Thanks mate.

We gonna have to start naming this software 'Whaats-up' soon.

ilay7k

Thank you!

Pete, you need assembly sketchup - whaat edition ... don't forget other talented ruby-writers of our community ...

juju

Sweet man, thanks!

kwistenbiebel

Thank you Whaat.
A great contribution again to the SU community!

Mike Lucey

Thanks Dale,

Again a most generous ccontribution that is truly appreciated by the Community.

Mike

PS: Will you be at 3DBC, I'd like to buy you a drink!

johnsenior1973

I've only done some quick tests, but so far I'm struggling to find any reason for this plugin. Following on from Solo, I pulled a model of Bender from the 3DW. I tried a poly reduction of 30% on it, it messed up the model slightly and actually increased the file size from 1500 kb to 1639 kb.

remus

File size isnt really very important unless your creating absolutely monstorous files. What does matter however is face count. You can have a 100mb file open easily if its got 50,000 faces, but if its got more than 200,000 faces your in for a hard time.

So basically face count is more important than file size pretty much all the time.

ilay7k

ehhh...can you(Whaat) add real-time trigger as at standard smoothing tool?

ely862me

i don t know how this should woork but for me it doesn t
first i create a shape and when i clicked polyreduce it cuted half of the polys
then i take a hood of a car and i clicked polyreduce and it start counting something and doing nothing it says like that : colapsed (i wait until)2 milion from 98 edges

remus

No need to boast coen

Whaat

@solo said:

We gonna have to start naming this software 'Whaats-up' soon.

human

Wow, nice plugin. compliments Subdivide and Smooth perfectly. Strange thing is...
Say i create a sphere. i right click and choose polyreduce. and it works, but i cant select all the faces with one click. now there are lots of faces that make up the poly-reduced sphere. Hmmmmmm...

Whaat

@human said:

but i cant select all the faces with one click. now there are lots of faces that make up the poly-reduced sphere. Hmmmmmm...

What do you mean by 'can't select all the faces with one click'

Maybe you can post a screenshot of the reduced sphere??

CadFather

Thanks Whaat - i have the feeling you will come back to it again if only as a module for something else.. very interesting!

vampa

This is wonderful, im a noobie and have been trying to reduce polygones to a sphere until i found this, you made my day

farukahmet

@ely862me said:

i don t know how this should woork but for me it doesn t
first i create a shape and when i clicked polyreduce it cuted half of the polys
then i take a hood of a car and i clicked polyreduce and it start counting something and doing nothing it says like that : colapsed (i wait until)2 milion from 98 edges

Same here