Hi,

is there a way/workflow in MoI where one could deliberately produce a low poly look? I am not talking about exporting the model - I'd rather like to achieve a low poly look for artistic reasons. Something like this:




Thanks.

Maybe the more easy is export your object as OBJ with less polygons

Then import it with _importOBJ by Max Smirnov script! ;)

Hehe, this sound like a pretty hacky hack :)

The Max site is now not accessible
so here you can load _ImportOBJ http://moiscript.weebly.com/_importobj.html ;) (Maybe in French don't remember)
but I am not sure because you have just to explore your disk and load your OBJ file :)

PS Make a shortcut or Press Tab then write _importObj

Hi Nicolinux,

you may look into Atangeo Balancer which does this task nicely and interactively. I purchased a copy years ago and like it very much when it comes to poly reduction.

http://www.atangeo.com

If you want to stay within MoI and do this type of low poly stuff go to Options/View/Meshing Parameters/ and set the Mesh Angle to something like 40 :)

Martin
(TpwUK)

It's just the view, not the real volume! ;)

For a free decimate Meshlab is a good one: ;) (and for other things! :)
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

Hi Stefan (Nicolinux) - yes like the other Stefan writes above probably your best bet would be to export to a polygon mesh format, and then bring that mesh data into a polygon decimation utility program.

- Michael

Wish they would update Balancer to 64 bit, and with some minimal retopology function, like converting to quads, ... would be nice

Hello,

+1 for Atangeo, I like the tolerance based decimation that nPro has among other features. I'm pretty sure Atangeo comes in both 32 and 64 bit flavors.

Thanks everybody.

I know about Meshlab (used it to create create the reduced bunny). I tried Atangeo and I like it. Since I have rather simple objects, I can get away with the free version. The importObj script works great too!

That's my source object:



Then I use Atangeo to reduce/simplify it (this messes it up pretty bad, but I want it that way :) )



Then I import it in MoI where I can even use the move command to snap the edges onto each other and together with the planar command and bool union to produce a solid!