After many customer requests, SIM has now released version 1.0 of the Rational Reducer plug-in for 3D Studio Max 6/7. It gives you a world leading polygon reduction tool very well integrated into your workflow as a 3D Studio Max modeller, with a competitive pricing.

The Rational Reducer Plug-in for 3DS Max has the following features:

• Set desired reduction percent or
• Set target polygon count or
• Set number of polygons to remove
• Preserves materials
• Preserves texture coordinates
• Preserves smoothing groups
• Preserves per-vertex coloring
• Keep outer edges of the model
• Keep texture boundaries
• Reduce different objects in the scene to different levels
• Apply a reduction to a whole object or only a subset of its faces
• Reduce an animated mesh in each key frame of the animation
• Use different reduction parameters in different key frames of an animation
• Get visual feedback on the reduction progress
• Keep a cache of the reduced mesh to avoid recalculating

Requirements

• Windows 2000 (SP4) or Windows XP Professional (SP1)
• Internet Explorer 6
• DirectX 8.1 (9 recommended)
• OpenGL
• Intel or AMD processor running at minimum 300MHz
• 512 MB RAM
• 64MB Graphics card with hardware acceleration