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Optimize with Polygon Reduction and Level of Detail

Optimize with Polygon Reduction and Level of Detail - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Optimize with Polygon Reduction and Level of Detail

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- [Instructor] Continuing our thought about models and their Level of Detail, I just wanted to talk about two objects that were introduced in release 19 that are very useful Now the first one is the Polygon Reduction object. So we'll add that to our scene. So we have two high-res spaceships at around 89, 90,000 polygons each. of the Polygon Reduction object and so the Polygon Reduction object's going to work on that. You can see it processing in the lower left corner there. And if we just click you can see that it's actually looks pretty much the same. And if we right click and choose Current State to Object, is now around about 25,000 polygons. So that's a huge reduction. And we really didn't have to do anything at all. The essence of the model looks pretty much the same. We haven't had to do any modeling ourselves. So let's keep going. We'll just hide this for now. And let's see if that setting was at 90%, so we'll just name this the 90% and we'll increase the reduction strength to…

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