Modelling Question: PolyMerge

[Iain McFadzen]

Err, can't you just delete the internal edges instead? Besides that, an N-sided poly has exactly the same polycount as the same area made up of tris, so you won't be saving anything anyway.

[TapioKa]

Thanks for the reply,

Actually I wasn't aware that you could delete edges without removing polygons, I guess you can in edit poly mode but not in edit mesh mode. So in that sense I just learned something.

However, if you do remove the internal edges on four planar polys quad sided, the triangle count does drop from eight to six tris, so there is some optimization although small.

But this does not solve my problem. It leaves two edges that could be one. I want to take four polygons, press a button or script and it becomes one four sided polygon. (two triangles)

Possible?

[dvornik]

There's a "remove interior edges from selected polys" script, part of csPolyTools. But I guess you will still have some hidden edges in there.

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