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Polygon reduction
Posted: 10 May 2007, 17:50
by aerogator
Hey guys, can someone please put me on the right path here. Below are two fuselages. The lower one is the basic LOD 1 P3 fuse and the upper one is my attempt to reduce polys by joining points. In reading the Aardvarks' description of this method they seem to be using something besides FSDS (Lightwave I think) because I cannot figure out any way to
join polys other than joining their points. They say something about joining adjacent sides but I can't figure out how to do that. And the project statistics dialog box shows that these fuses have
exactly the same number of polys.
If there is a method of joining polys in FSDS 3, I would sure like to know it. Help please.
Posted: 10 May 2007, 19:07
by Psuls
If this method exists, than I sure want to know about it!
Lod making can be boring...
Posted: 11 May 2007, 00:22
by Dark Morelia
When you join points, the poly's still exist, you have to go into poly mode and cycle through them, deleting the invisible ones. They show up as just a line.
Posted: 11 May 2007, 05:21
by RipPipPip
...so you may run that legendary FSDS "snap to scale" function.
Posted: 11 May 2007, 12:38
by aerogator
Thanks Andy, that makes sense.
Rip, isn't it true that when you join 2 points there is only 1 point remaining?
Posted: 11 May 2007, 12:46
by RipPipPip
You can not join them manually - the only way is to use "snap to scale". What you do is just make them "close enough", for example for 0.005.
Posted: 11 May 2007, 13:30
by aerogator
You can not join them manually -
So when I select 2 points and press 'j', they are not joined as one?
Posted: 11 May 2007, 14:16
by RipPipPip
Oh, that's interesting - it works! I never used that feature
If we are talking about LOD making that for complicated parts I just "wait" until have a LOD when change does not matter too much and then apply a new part completely don from scratch.
Here's an example of An-2 LODs philosophy:
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1 RWAI_An2_LOD_400 xxxx --- (or formerly WHITE _400_BOX part)
2 RWAI_An2_LOD_150 xxxx MAGENTA - lower poly tail + new engines (incl. formerly LOD_200 YELLOW - less poly wheels)
3 RWAI_An2_LOD_100 xxxx L_BLUE - new fuselage, new tail, new engines
4 RWAI_An2_LOD_075 xxxx SILVER - new fuse, engines, wing, horiz. tail, simpler wheels
5 RWAI_An2_LOD_035 xxxx GREEN - fuse very simple 4 sided, engines, vert tail (flaps,slats,gear doors removed)
6 RWAI_An2_LOD_015 xxxx RED - ultra simple 4 sided model
7 RWAI_An2_LOD_005 xxxx --- - very ultra simple paper model