Hey Shaun, No Worries! "Special" pools are the only type I would bother to make! Since I would probably get sent there myself! Aloha, Matte

Thanks Gaieus, Hopefully this will save me alot of time as I am constantly re-tweaking the "fly thru" path to get it smoother before I start to wrestle with the export/rendering game. Thanks Again! Matte

While somebody might be able to create a script to do this [which would be nice] I don't really see the need. Blender [free] already has an excellent feature to do this [decimate] and can be done without needing to learn blender interface. Work process like this: export .obj from sketchup import to blender right click object to select, add decimate modifier set to whatever level [say .25] and apply export from blender as .3ds import back into sketchup I'm a huge fan of sketchup, but when there's a better tool for the job... [dsarchs]

Matte, sorry, I didn't get your e-mail until Monday morning and by then I was neck deep in brush fires. Didn't get a chance to look but I see you got it figured out. That's great and sorry about that.