Lowering Polygon Count

[sasquatch]

If you're animating face shapes, there's no easy way out of this one; I'd recommend rebuilding the model using the unwieldy one as reference.

You'll never get a clean mesh by poly-reduction or decimation tools.

sas

[Ckerr812]

Originally posted by rayfusion
hey guys im new to this forum and i only been in maya a few days. sumone sent me a mesh of a head and i was wondering how i would lower the polygon count on it because the geometry is quite high and difficult to work with. thx

Hi there,

yea,,you will have to re-build it, plain and simple. It's called bad modelling when the geo is to high and you can't work with it.

[Heber]

thx for the responses guys yeah this thing is masssive , so hard to make noticeble changes in the facial features...well i guess ill have to do that...thx :airguitar

[wrend]

might want to check that your source doesnt have a low-poly hull that was used to provide a smoothed version you've ended up with? does it look like a smoothed result? also, you might consider using the poly reduction tools (suss out progressiveMesh plug on highend3d) to get a gneral cage you could clean up a little then use as a wrap if rebuilding will take to long or be difficult to capture the detail of the current mesh. depends what your requirements are.
g.luck!

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