On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Ville Tirronen wrote: > In Roberts site there is a mention about Polygon reduction. > > - New SDS tool 'Reduce' added, for automatic face reduction. > > I Think that this is the most important new feature in V7. > Images about the usage would be nice :) > > Also is there any additions to UV-texturing? > Today SDS texturing is just pain. Better polygonal rendering with > displacement mapping would be nice. > > Ville
I've experimented with a couple of poly-reduction tools but found them a bit hit-or-miss - the results were too unpredictable for what I wanted. In the end, I found it quite easy, although a bit time-consuming, to do it manually. In most cases, reducing the poly-count basically amounts to removing edges from the model and if I wanted to remove a string of edges I often found it easier to first select all relevant points in point-editing mode and then switch to edge-editing mode to remove them (you then need to reselect all the points once again in point-mode, and then delete them too, and although it sounds like hard work I found it fairly quick and easy to do in practice, and quicker than merging individual polys). LeeE
