From: Mike Dudley <mikedu@player1.com>
To: T Goodwin <T.Goodwin@vrsolns.co.uk>
Cc: 3dsmax@engram.net <3dsmax@engram.net>
Subject: Re: optimizer for hipoly->lowpoly?
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 12:41 PM

There is a really good free plugin out there for Max 2.x and 3 called
"Polychop" by a guy named Stan Melax.
In my opinion it's functionality is better than Multi-Res, and better yet
it's free!
It preserves UV coordinates, and vertice colors. Indispensable for LOD's.
Here's the link...

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~melax/polychop/plugin/

T Goodwin wrote:

> Has anyone tried the digimation Multires plugin?
>
> Is it a good optimiser? or does it still throw out odd artifacts?
> I looked at the Rational reducer demo and was impressed with its polygon
> structuring(if not the price). Does Multires compare favourably?
> Tim
>
> So, here is a cheaper reducer, and its price was reduced recently
> from around $295 down to $99. You can get it direct from Digimation:
>         http://www.digimation.com/asp/product.asp?product_id=58
>
> L8r!
>
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