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Mafia

06-12-2003, 09:03 PM

hi,

i am using mayaPLE to create static mesh's for the game ut2003...

i have saved a scene containing several seperate poly mesh's, recently by mistake i have subdivided one of them then saved it. - because face count is an issue to me, this is not what i want.

first of all, is there a way i can un-subdivide a poly model with no history?

my second option was to import the affected mesh from a previous save, but this has a problem of its own..... the hypershade now has double the materials used - (i.e copys of every material i used.)
- so if there is no (un-subD) operation, my second question is how do i import an object into a scene which use's the same materials - without making copies of each material?

thanks :O)

swag

06-13-2003, 01:06 AM

1. no there is no way -u have to do it by hand (MJpolyTools can help u with loop and ring selection or use wings3d)
2. u can optimize the scene or kill not used shader in HS RMB Menu

TheWraith

06-13-2003, 03:22 AM

convert the subD back to poly but switch the convert options from adaptive to vertices or something like that so you go back to your base mesh.

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