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Balancer is a fast, efficient and easy to use tool for optimizing 3D polygonal models.
Polygon Reduction
Balancer utilizes a high quality, high performance polygon reduction (aka polygon simplification or decimation) to preserve the visual appearance of your model. Polygon reduction is computed for all possible levels of detail (LOD) in one shot. This entire LOD hierarchy allows you instantly pick a required optimized model that gives the best trade-off between visual appearance and the number of triangles.
Rendering Performance Optimization
Modern graphics hardware and rendering applications utilize memory and vertex cache to dramatically speed up rendering and geometry processing. To make your models benefit from this, Balancer features a fast and efficient triangle reordering.
Features
High quality, high performance mesh simplification
Construction of the entire LOD hierarchy in one shot
An advanced user interface to instantly select an optimized model with the desired number of triangles
Texture coordinates preservation
Normals can be either preserved or recomputed
Preservation and simplification of the model boundaries
Boundaries defined by discontinuities of materials, layers, texture coordinates are supported
Visualization of boundaries
Joining of vertices given a user-specified threshold
Joining of normals and texture coordinates to eliminate corresponding false boundaries
Effective, high performance mesh stripification
Fast and intelligent triangle reordering for best visualization performance
depending on your rendering method
Target rendering methods are
triangle strips, general rendering, array based rendering
Supported 3D formats:
Wavefront (.obj)
Supported image formats:
JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PPM, PBM
Supported operating systems:
Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
The limits for a single mesh are 15000 triangles and 10000 vertices.Tested and works!
If your entire model is large but has many small independent meshes or layers, you can still use Balancer Lite. Before loading your model, enable Balancer to split the model into independent meshes in Tools | Options | Importers | Wavefront .obj.
I am a proud owner of gile[s ] and like it very much.... so.... i'm happy to share this great news:QuoteWe're pleased to announce that gile[s ]is now free to use!
Get it here!
You can use the following code to activate the full version.
Registration name: Freeware
Registration code: GLS-7781-C787-C274
We hope you will find a use for it in your games and experiments.
We will still be updating it occasionally, so feel free to suggest improvements and report bugs!
Thanks to one and all who bought and helped improve gile[s ] over the years! It's been a lot of fun!
now, lets make some kickass shadowmaps for 3DRad!!!
giles 2 uses 1.36 registration... so just install 2 after you registered.
Hi all.!
There's a new "FREE" tool for making indoor level.
Maplet.
It was created for Blitz 3D (so models are exported in B3D) but it could export in.X format too ! Just the 3d rad's loving format !
But the lightmaping is only export in the B3D files... not a big problem for 3D rad because you can add pointlights in the 3D rad editor....
Grab the full version :
http://www.blitzmax.com/Products/maplet.php
Have a nice day.
