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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: atangeo on November 12, 2010, 03:19:56 PM

Title: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: atangeo on November 12, 2010, 03:19:56 PM
Atangeo Balancer, a popular tool to optimize and simplify 3D models,
is now available for both Mac OS X and Windows.

Its exceptional performance and a novel user interface allow finding
perfect balance between visual appearance and the number of polygons,
quickly and easily. Balancer utilizes a high quality polygon reduction
(aka mesh simplification or decimation) to preserve the visual
appearance of your model. The model features, normals, texture
coordinates, layer boundaries are all honored by Balancer.

Balancer comes now with both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries
on both Windows and Mac OS X.

Atangeo technology is also available as an SDK.

Hope you will find Balancer useful.

Link: http://www.atangeo.com/
Title: Re: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: TheBlackHole on November 12, 2010, 03:51:44 PM
I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be some kind of advertisement. ::)
Title: Re: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: atangeo on November 12, 2010, 04:08:30 PM
I have already posted here, and we have several customers that use Balancer with Terragen.
So I hope your great community will find Balancer useful as well.  :)
Title: Re: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: Henry Blewer on November 12, 2010, 05:08:29 PM
I will try this out with a Blender object, exported as obj data.
Title: Re: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: cyphyr on November 12, 2010, 05:35:40 PM
Looks interesting, in fact I have a very large city model that could do with some poly reduction. Thanks, I'll give it a try :) By the way I could not find a price or link to the full version.
:)
Richard
PS: personally I have no problem with relevant adverts, I'd even like an advert section of the forum, although it would be almost impossible to avoid all the Viagra and wow adverts so its a non starter.
Title: Re: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: Oshyan on November 12, 2010, 06:21:46 PM
It's in open discussion, and seems fairly useful for TG users. Thanks for the update.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Optimize 3D models: Atangeo Balancer, now for Mac and Windows
Post by: atangeo on November 13, 2010, 06:17:58 AM
Thanks for your interest.
@cyphyr
I've added 'Buy' to the main menu of the site. It was previously only in the bottom of the entry page. Thanks for pointing this out.
And our price is highly affordable :)