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The output of your tool looks great, however it would be far more useful to us if we could automate it and/or integrate it with Maya. Have you given any thought to a command-line or (even better) library version of your tool?

Thanks,
PapaBear

Hi,

As an experiment I tried simplifying a Blender model (which Blender can decimate fine). However, it was unable to simplify it at all -- it could only show the original model as output.

Here's a link to the model.

It would be great to get the help file on our hard disks rather than having to go online for it.

Lighwave would be fantastic, but 3ds, fbx would also be welcome.

Great program, great price. Even though the Lite version is available I decided to purchase the full program.

How about the ability to select areas for reduction or exclusion from reduction? I've been playing around with a model and Balancer can really reduce those polygons! Say you have a human figure. What about the ability to leave the head or hands as they are and reduce the faces on rest of the torso?

Adding one additional constraint would really make this tool nice:

When joining vertices between different material patches in a model, it isn't enough to specify just the distance-- there should also be a constraint to join only if the angle between the triangles containing the vertices is less than a threshold angle. Without this constraint, sharp edges or thin two-sided geometry is incorrectly joined and the recomputed normals are wrong.