rebuild mesh low poly

[RustyKnight]

You could try the multires modifier. It's not brillant so far as you will still need to do some work, but it's already apart of max.

There's still probably a better solution, but might be a start

[thatoneguy]

This seems like a good place to ask:

Is there an anti-meshsmooth?

Since meshsmooth is based on an extremely basic sub-d algorithm is there a way to apply the inverse operation? I guess a -1 meshsmooth. You would need to define a vertex as an "original" and then it would pretty much just delete every other edgeloop etc to reduce the mesh to a pre-smoothed state. Assuming of course you didn't add any edge, or change the topology after applying meshsmooth.

[eric720]

Hi there!

Does anybody know a script that rebuilds a high poly mesh to get a good looking low poly mesh out of it? I thought I've seen a script some while ago but I can't remember it's name...


THX

Try a plugin named Polygon Cruncher. I guess it can do pretty much what u want.

Eric

[48design]

Thank you everybody for your answers!
I'll try these suggestions and anti-meshsmooth sound's funny :D

Would be cool to keep this thread alive and use it as a start for all the good maxscript programmers out there to make such a anti-meshsmooth modifier!

I remember a script but I don't know where I've seen it, I thought it was here in this forum. With that it was possible to build a low poly object around a high poly one and then let it shrink until the vertices were close to the high poly object's surface.

[thatoneguy]

Actually that's built into max. It's under compound objects. Although I'm sure a scripted version could be vastly improved.

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