Nice case study of Terragen / Unity workflow (by Veselin Efremov)

[paq]

Hello there,

Just a title update about Atangeo Balancer.
http://www.atangeo.com/

This little baby manage to load a 281.000.000 vertices mesh (Terragen terrain), using 'only' 20 gigs of ram. (the .obj size was about 32 Gb).

Process time (Minutes)
Loading time : 9.04
Vertex merge : 4.26
T-junction : 2.02

After this cleaning you end up with a 93.000.000 triangles mesh.

Structure simplification pre-process : 18.00
% reduction takes then few seconds.

The key here is to hide the 3d viewport, otherwise the display complexity will freeze your computer

Sorry for the little shout out, but this is the kind of developer I like to support.
Balancer is a top quality piece of software, that works like advertised.
And the support is top notch ! (only get one problem since 2 or 3 years)

I wasn't able to use it on Terragen terrain until I understand that multi-threading introduce
overlapping mesh problem in the Micro exporter.

[TheBadger]

This looks helpful! I looked at the forum dis not see if this works on quad based models. Or if it will translate to quads to tris. Do you happen to know the answer?

Works on OS X too, so really interested in this. $144 for pro (not cheap) regular is 52.00. Not sure what the differences are, no chart on the price page.

[paq]

Hi Badger,

No quad output, I don't remember any 'poly cruncher' that can output quad mesh.
I know Meshlab has an quad remesher, but I'm affraid it will not give any good result.

The only solultion I see is to use zbrush remeshing.

I'm using the 'cheap' version, more than enough for my needs.
There is a chart comparaison here :

http://www.atangeo.com/products

[TheBadger]

 

[paq]

So here's a little practical test, using the micro exporter + balancer for vertex merge/T-junction fix and a little poly reduction.

The only limit is the memory needed by Balancer to process the poly reduction.

Original Terragen model was about 270.000.000 points, reduced into 160.000.000 triangles, and rendered in Clarisse.

[zaxxon]

That is very impressive! I just bought Atangeo Balancer, thanks for the information and examples.

[Tangled-Universe]

Have been a bit quiet lately, also in this topic, but I'm reading along with all these messages

Very interesting stuff and I'm keen on seeing more!

In the end I'd be interested to see your workflow layed out step by step as well Paq, if possible

[Kadri]

So here's a little practical test, using the micro exporter + balancer for vertex merge/T-junction fix and a little poly reduction.
The only limit is the memory needed by Balancer to process the poly reduction.
Original Terragen model was about 270.000.000 points, reduced into 160.000.000 triangles, and rendered in Clarisse.

Looks nice.Just curious how big was the file size of the object?

[paq]

Hi there,

Hi Martin,

Well basically it will be a ripoff from Veselin, except that I replace the Meshlab part with Balancer.
But I will prepare a doc this weekend, there are few tricks here and there to speed up the process I haven't discuss yet. Also at this point I'm more interested to import/render hi quality mesh from Terragen in Clarisse, very different from a Terra to Unity workflow.

Hope someone wouldn't mind to correct the grammar/typo 

Hi Kadri,

Original Terra mesh was about 32gig ... but it require 'only' 24Gb  of memory to process in Balancer.
(dont need any normal or texture coord info).

After the merge and small optimization, the mountain was about 4Gb.

[Kadri]

From 32GB to 4GB...nice. Balancer looks very useful.
It would be much harder to do in another software probably.
Thanks for the info

[CesarJaida]

Недавно наткнулся на сайт louewqiuegiuewoo.fun и решил поделиться своими мыслями.
 
Сервис сразу притягивает внимание своим неординарным названием и привлекает интерес ещё при первом посещении.
 
По первым впечатлениям проект выглядит как портал, ориентированный на на упрощённую подачу информации и минималистичный стиль.
 
Не лишним будет отметить, насколько удобно перемещаться по ресурсу, насколько отзывчивый сайт, и понятно ли, какое у него предназначение.
 
Что стоит рассмотреть в первую очередь:
Общую концепцию и задачи проекта.
Удобство интерфейса.
Во́нкальный вид и дизайн.
Полезность и актуальность подачи материалов.
Общее впечатление от просмотра.
 
По моему мнению, подобные ресурсы стоит оценивать не только по дизайну, но и по тому, насколько удобно ими пользоваться.