Hi Pilou,

Zbrush Decimation master is a good decimation tool,
but Balancer is more robust (no mesh artifacts, skinny triangles etc),
faster, needs much less resources and thus can work easily
with very large models, and can preserve more details given
the same triangle count. Also the latest version of Balancer
has a unique feature to simplify models down to your required
error tolerance. So, basically you get guaranteed visual appearance
without thorough inspection and adjustment of triangle count.

You may take a look at some comparison of
Zbrush Decimation master vs Balancer here:
http://forums.luxology.com/discussion/topic.aspx?id=40386

Here is a comment by a Balancer user on ZBrush:
http://forum.reallusion.com/Topic65513-85-2.aspx#bm105007

Many thanks for the precisions!
Ps And I have seen that was PaQ (a Moi fan) who made the comparaison test ! ;)

Hi atangeo,

Will Balancer nPro do any repair for the models that it simplifies? Like closing holes to make watertight, eliminating non-manifold edges, eliminating intersecting triangles, etc.?


Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your question.
The initial release of Balancer nPro will only have watertight verification
in addition to the existing tools in Balancer, vertex joining and T-junction
elimination.

We will gradually add various mesh processing tools like those you mention.
Mesh processing is exactly the area of our expertise. :)

I tried the demo and it is way faster than the ZB Decimation Master!
Nice results and simple interface too.