Hello,

I have developed a polygon reduction software for the 3D GameStudio models, "MDL Reducer". It can read, reduce and write 3DGS MDL files directly and easily.

MDL Reducer reduces not only vertices and faces but also corresponding skin vertices maintaining the appearance of the original as much as possible. And it also supports models containing vertex animation frames.

While MDL Reducer would cut more than 70% of your original model's polygons and skin vertices maintaining almost the same appearance of the original(as you can see below), the effect of reduction depends on your original model's density, shape and levels of the reduction which you can set to this software.

MDL Reducer 0.9 is free of charge for standard use!(game creation)

Following images are from my experiment using this software:


Before the reduction


Reducing with the MDL Reducer


After the reduction

DOWNLOAD the MDL Reducer
My web site

I hope this software helps you much!

Hiroyuki,

You are a hero! In more ways than one!

Unfortunately I'm having a problem getting one of my models reduced. Can I email it to you, and maybe you can tell me if it's a bug or if I am doing something wrong?

Thank you so much for this brilliant contribution. WOW! I've always had to reduce my models by going .3DS -> .WRL -> Vizup -> WRL -> 3DS -> MDL, which really takes a lot of time. Your tool will save a *lot* of time and headache!

May I make a few feature requests if you make another version? It would be lovely if you could see the MDL in the application, so you could see how it looks in various reductions, so that you could test different reductions in real time, before saving it. Then it would be perfect! But it's so cool already!!!
If I may email you my model, would you send me a message?

Best wishes, and thank you so much!

Whoa that is cool, can we use this in a commercial use?

Thank you for the gift, Hiroyuki

Is anyone kind of crashing?

Yes, it chrashes!

Sorry for my English

Wow, that's neat!
Can we expect a version that works for MDL7 models as well?

Nice Tool, but unfortunatly I get my model to have some
ackward faces.
Maybe your next version will have an improved reduction
algorythm.
But nice work for a free tool.

Thanks Hiroyuki! You're amazing! Anata wa subarashii desu! Arigatou.

How do I use an .lzh file?