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Hello

I've gained the Balancer nPro and am also very satisfied.

Question:

If in the near future, the possibility that there is a plugin for Cinema 4D?
This could facilitate the work very much because of the way across the .OBJ storage will then fall away.

best regards

Hi,
I use balancer to reduce the original model from 744 faces to 170 faces, and the quality is great.
And I'd like to do more reduction with some loss of quality.
I have tried many parameters but can't find an effective way.

The balancer reduced(with the default parameter): https://app.box.com/s/skb4ob1yvm497p5968qj7m0z42j9mid5
Manually reduced(reconstruct the model):https://app.box.com/s/9g5xizdoij8x5vn65i5l9oggupfysjmx
Is it possible for balancer to make a reduction close it?

The original file: https://app.box.com/s/cdn5sik7ct9nckds7hvc7pvr7c4vs1ce

Hi, I am having issues with bringing in OBJs from FormZ. I usually end up with too many polys and Balancer has been great to deal with. Recently, I have found that none of the files that I create will open in Balancer. I get the error:

obj Importer error: cannot open input file: /Volumes/3TB/3D/•EIProjects/UFO/Models/test-toss.obj
Importing '/Volumes/3TB/3D/•EIProjects/UFO/Models/test-toss.obj': done in 0.01 sec

This error is with a simple sphere. I have tried exporting from FormZ as UNIX and Mac format and other options but can't get anything to work. Any suggestions? Thanks. -Derryl

Hi,
The model can be decimated to a small number of faces, but the normals may be adjusted to get a better vision.
The original model file:https://app.box.com/s/2ycf7j6uc5lzlqtj4rj0acvhuhdvzwyl
The full resolution picture after join vertex and normals:https://app.box.com/s/9fx76l2r9bw4tbm8tw8i4nhg4tua4e37
The reduction result:https://app.box.com/s/7p73g8wf2sw2xdueuvi0mxx9kikjb35t

Of course, I can get a better vision to select a high resolution.
But I am just wondering is there a way(eg. adjust some params) to get a better vision with lower resolution.

Hi,
It takes over one hour to join vertices, see the file(528471 vertices, 176157 faces): https://app.box.com/s/o13pkax79fqwqx7i52m0dgj3pz67odgq
Is there any way to speed up?

Thanks.

Hi,
I am trying to deal with obj files without normals(https://app.box.com/s/lkb7e472ztwplzhg74dtlr0heppcppen) in below two ways and results are different.
1. Load the file(apply after importing disabled ), join vertex, join normals and build. It results 154 faces. But it looks some weird.
2. Load the file(apply after importing disabled ) and save(save vertex normals enabled and only if ... disabled). Then load the saved file, join vertex, join normals and build. It results 170 faces and it looks perfect. I prefer this results, but the process is little complex.

Hi,
Balancer helps me to reduct the model from file size 42M to 150k.
Now, it remains 2885 faces. The file can be download from https://app.box.com/s/4wstptq2p40t3lc0s6j165e63w3ewz8q
But it seems more reduction can be done without lose the quality.
I have tried to adjust the Torlance but seemed not work, any advice?

Thanks.

Hi, the default setting of join normals threshold is 45 degree.

But the output normals below seem to not join after join normals clicking. Does I miss anything?
...
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 5.708798e-14
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 7.778315e-13
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 2.07579e-13
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 -3.457651e-13
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 -4.492989e-13
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 2.236401e-13
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 2.91588e-13
vn -0.9998301 -0.01843113 -1.090001e-14
...

and is 45 degree is too big for common case?

Thanks.

Hi there,

I have several questions relating to Balancer nPro v2. I hope you can help me to clarify them.

1) Can you explain how "Tolerance" works?

2) What benefits of "Update Smooth Normals" ? In what usual case do I need it?

3) "Update Normals button recomputes the model normals to reflect the optimization changes." so does this means that after simplify, you need to recompute all normals of model's faces for best optimization topology?

4) What is "Prevent UV foldovers" & "Prevent XY foldovers" ? In what usual case should I prefer one, rather than the other?

Hi all,

I did a complex model with photogramtry (+2.7M faces)
My goal is convert it to PDF3D.
I'm trying to reduce size with Balancer, that seams do very good job.
I'm using SimLab to convert OBJ to PDF.
All the time I can see all faces.
But when I finally can I see it with Acrobat Reader, it apears some gaps.
The gaps apreciate in Acrobat are the same shapes that in Balancer apears in orange color.
In this image you can see that I mean:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2575731/shape%20lost.jpg

Is there any way to fix this?

Any help will be apreciate
Tanks in advance