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    Default Best way to lower faces/vertices

    I have a terrain I made in MAX from an imported DWG file. It has almost 300,000 vertices and almost 600,000 faces. Anyone give me a good way to lower the size a bit without sacrificing too much quality?

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    Default Re: Best way to lower faces/vertices

    Was your terrain originally a plane or box? Select your original object and reduce the number of segments.

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    Default Re: Best way to lower faces/vertices

    Oh oops.Not a box. Convert to editable mesh and weld. Welding vertices combines all selected vertices into a single vertex.

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    Default Re: Best way to lower faces/vertices

    Original object was contour lines imported from CAD. Not a box or a plane. I used the terrain compound object option to make it.

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    I'll try it.... but it will be taxing I bet....

    Didn't work... too many vertices
    Last edited by nkennelly; 2005-12-29 at 07:13 PM.

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    Default Re: Best way to lower faces/vertices

    Try the MultiRe modifier or the Optimize modifier or you could use the Conform spacewarp with a lower resolution plane object above the original terrain.....Let me know if you need clarification.

    Dwayne

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