try this ( I hacked some of from Steve Caron's script here -
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/xsi_list/-mDMXnp28aI/9YB0ue8xP9AJ ):
import win32com
xsi = Application
coll = win32com.client.Dispatch( "XSI.Collection" )
coll.AddItems (xsi.Selection)
#get first objects name so you can use it on the new mesh once it's made
meshName = coll(0).Name
ops = xsi.ApplyGenOp("MeshMerge", "", "", 3, "siPersistentOperation",
"siKeepGenOpInputs", "")
# ApplyGenOp returns a collection, if there is a count then the operator was
successfully applied
if ops.Count:
op = ops(0)
op.tolerance.Value = 0
# get new merged object
mergedMesh = op.OutputPorts(0).Target2.Parent
xsi.ApplyTopoOp("PolygonReduction", mergedMesh, "siUnspecified",
"siPersistentOperation", "")
#name the new mesh
mergedMesh.Name = str(meshName) + "_merged"
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:53:49 +0100
Subject: Re: ICE - How to quickly build low-poly geometry on high poly meshes
From: 3dv...@gmail.com
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
@Simon: Yes, for my purpose that would be enough
I'll try by best to create a simple script that allows me to do that, and also
adding a shrink wrap which is a good advice ;)
In case I'll bother you guys with some help for the script :D
Thanks
2013/12/18 Mirko Jankovic <mirkoj.anima...@gmail.com>
can also even add another shrink wrap on top of it to get reduced mesh closer
to original one if needed
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:33 PM, gareth bell <garethb...@outlook.com> wrote:
Yes, I agree with Simon on this. A simple script that dupes, merges, rename's
and poly reduces would probably do the trick
From: si...@simonreeves.com
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:17:24 +0000
Subject: Re: ICE - How to quickly build low-poly geometry on high poly meshes
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
Polygon reduction does a pretty good job for this kind of thing really
especially as you can preserve volume etc.
Maybe you just need a basic script?Select some objects, duplicate, rename apply
poly reduction to them?
Would that be enough?
Simon Reeves
London, UK
si...@simonreeves.com
www.simonreeves.comwww.analogstudio.co.uk
On 18 December 2013 11:09, Matt Morris <matt...@gmail.com> wrote:
You Could try Guillaume Laforge's convex hull custom ice node:
http://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/happy-2012/
On 18 December 2013 10:47, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm building a set that will be imported into a game engine ( UDK )
So what I need to do is to create for each mesh a low poly version of itself,
that will basically behave as an "invisible geometry physical entity" inside
the game engine, means that the player can't go through the object ( for
example a wall ) as its blocking the player
So I'm not too concern about the low poly mesh to be 100% accurate, I just need
some kind of simple geometry.
I'm doing something similar by duplicating by meshes, join some of them
together, and then apply the polygon reduction tool in order to have a low poly
mesh of the object
I would like to make a quicker way to create low poly meshes, maybe by creating
a compound that can be shared among the high poly meshes ( or applied to a
group of meshes ), and if possible be able to rename the created low poly mesh
with a suffix named "UCX_" ( which renamer do you suggest to batch rename
meshes?)
I haven't tried yet to build geometry in ICE, so I was wondering if something
like this can be done quickly in ICE
Cheers
--
www.matinai.com
