Is there a way to use the subdivide and reduce functions, inside of MED, on only a selected area of your terrain. I have, of course, already tried the flat out... select the area I want to reduce, click reduce, but it didnt work. Perhaps there is another way?

The reason I ask, is because I really would like to avoid doing it by hand. In an optomization test, I realized that I had a lot of almost flat land, that didnt need nearly as many polyies as it had. So, I deleted the whole thing, made it 2 polyies, and ran it to compar FPS. I saved around 15-25FPS, on average, when looking at the entire terrain from above. However, I dont really want to take ALL of the vertecies away, because the terrain wasnt completely flat. So, I would like to simply reduce vertex count. If this isnt available, I feel that it should really be considered, because it could really save some time when optomizing terrain. Thank you in advance.

Raddaddy

It's a limitation of HMP terrains. Just save your HMP terrain as an MDL terrain for several advantages MDL terrains offer. Your case is a prime example of one of the advantages of MDL terrains.

Hi!

You have to read the manual, for how med works,if you need a terrain with small polygon count, then when you create the terrain in med, through vertices vertical and vertices horizontal you could adjust the number of polygons.


salva

@Salava: I understand how to decrease the entire terrains vertex count, but that would defeat my purpose. Some of my terrain does need to be high-poly, such as clifs, and hills. However, using 100 polys for a piece of flat land makes no sense at all. That is what I am trying to do, reduce the vertex count in only a select few areas.

@Ulillillia: My method of creating terrain is as follows:

1. Set the flat plane in HMP.
2. Create a general floorplan in HMP:
3. Convert to mdl.
4. Add features that were not possible in HMP.
5. optomize and skin
6. Import into WED, and add any other detail needed via external models.

I am in between steps 4/5 at the moment, so it is in MDL format. However, I dont see a subdivide or reduce function for models period. I guess I will do this by hand.

Thank you everyone for the replys. Question mostly answered .

I know, there is no known way to reduce or "optimize" a mesh. I've made a few threads in the future forum related to it. MED is highly limited in what it can do.

What I normally do is just place a few vertices around and move the vertices as needed.

Some poor chap spent time creating an optimizer for .mdl models, but it would seem not everyone can be bothered with searching "User Contributions" before making assumptions.
Here might be the MDL Reducer thread which I found in 5.2 seconds on dial-up.
This could be the site for which, you will, no doubt, absolutely, irrefutably, not maybe, might, seemingly, potentially, could have, possibly, apparently, perhaps will, but with iron clad truth behind the statement, make a donation to the developer, if you find the MDL Reducer device useful. Please do not prove the assumption in the previous statement false out of spite or reciprocation; such would not be fair to Hiroyuki.
Maybe, you think the above solution is too easy. Instead you might find some means by which to import the model into Blender and apply a "Decimator" (with a name like "Decimator" maybe you can only expect good things) to optimize the model. I can not guarantee that the results will be satisfactory. In fact, I won't even guarantee that there will be any results at all, I have never "Decimated" a model in Blender. For all I know, the "Decimator" might slice your model into separate triangles and overwrite system files with Blender format files that each contain a single triangle of the source mesh. (Then again, the Decimator might be a figment of my imagination.) Ideally, you might only want to "Decimate" the "flat" faces of interest, but to do so specifically, might require more than I am suggesting.