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How to reduce polygon count or decimate?

cmramlow_f99ac453ffcmramlow_f99ac453ff Posts: 44
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I have been able to export into 3sd max an Autodesk file that I can change the mesh shape on, but whenever I export it from Max it give an error - invalid triangle count: must use between 0 and 65535

i am assuming it's becuase there's far too many polygons and I need to reduce them somehow.

What's the best way to decimate from daz 4.5? Is there a plugin I can buy?

Thank you for any advice.

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  • StonemasonStonemason Posts: 1,181
    edited December 1969

    just taking a guess here but isn't the .3ds format limited to 65535 facets on a mesh?...in which case your better off exporting as .obj format which doesnt have any limits.

    Thanks
    Stefan

  • MedzinMedzin Posts: 337
    edited December 2012

    The limit on .3ds format files is 65535 faces as stated above but the usual error message is

    Object [whatever] has too many faces (more than 64K) to export

    It doesn't usually say anything about triangles.
    I don't have the MDL exporter in this version, but I think that is what it used to say.

    DS cannot import .3ds format and as mentioned before, you will lose any rigging on OBJ or 3ds export.

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  • cmramlow_f99ac453ffcmramlow_f99ac453ff Posts: 44
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the help. I finally figured this out to be a Max problem where all the meshes in the scene were not skinned properly. They were so small they escaped detection until I turned on hidden frames.

    Thanks for the help, you guys are super kind.

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