Where is Decimator in DAZ 4.5 beta

Mosk the Scribe

I purchased Decimator, but I don't see it anywhere in the DAZ 4.5 beta interface. Not in the plugin list either.

Anyone know where it is?

And is it working for most people? (I saw someone was having it crash 4.5 in another thread)

Thanks

fixmypcmike

Did you run the Decimator installer that's in the .zip with the 4.5 installer, and put in your purchased serial number?

Mosk the Scribe

Thank you. Working much better now. :)

Mosk the Scribe

Well - sort of working, in so far as loads properly now.
And I am able to decimate objects and save as different LOD.

But even though I can set the Mesh resolution back to base in the parameters tab, it doesn't restore the figure to that higher poly version.

Tried with a couple of different props with several LODs - but can never get back to better version.

Are others having this problem?

Richard Haseltine

What are you expecting to happen? I'm not actually familiar with Decimator, but I didn't think it claimed to create new LoD levels for a figure in place.

Mosk the Scribe

Hey Richard - I think Decimator is supposed to let you make a new Level Of Detail for mesh, say one at 50% of vertices or polygons, another at 25%, another at 10%, and then toggle the Mesh Resolution setting so you can go back and forth between the higher and lower resolution models. (just as you can do with V4, for instance, by toggling her mesh resolution between base and lower poly models.

Decimator in DAZ 4.5 is letting me decimate down to a low poly model, but even if I reset the model back to better resolution, no actual change takes place - I'm left with the low quality model. I'm also not seeing LOD's added to the model - so if I reload it from browser, and go look at Resolotion options, the newly created LOD's arent there.

I'll have to recheck in DAZ 3 Advanced (at some point it was working properly there, don't remember if any updates broke functionality or not.

Richard Haseltine

"Base resolution" refers to SubD (on or off) rather than LoD. Have you tried exporting the zeroed figure as an OBJ, then importing that as a new LoD level? Though I'm not sure whether LoD actually works with Genesis - it's one of those features that sounded very useful but has gone, for me at least, almost entirely unused.

Mosk the Scribe

Haven't tried exporting and reimporting as new LOD. Would that maintain proper links to textures and morphs?
Also, how do you turn SubD on and Off?

Thanks

Richard Haseltine said:

"Base resolution" refers to SubD (on or off) rather than LoD. Have you tried exporting the zeroed figure as an OBJ, then importing that as a new LoD level? Though I'm not sure whether LoD actually works with Genesis - it's one of those features that sounded very useful but has gone, for me at least, almost entirely unused.

Szark

To turn off Sub-D Select the object then in the Parameters Pane select Mesh Resolution. See image below.

LOD for Genesis. I just created a New LOD for Genesis using Decimator, saved the the low res Genesis as a scene and reopened still low res. EDIT: Sorry that was incorrect the DUF decimated Gensis scene file reopened at full SUB-D Resolution of the Original Genesis.

Then if I try to inject a New LOD in to a newly a loaded Genesis at Base resolution (subd off) using the "Add Levels of Detail.dse script in the Daz Studio Format > Studio 4 > Scripts > Utilities directory, DS4.5 RC 2 throws up an error to look at the LOG. which shows this

Loaded file: Genesis.duf
Executing DAZ Script file: C:/DAZ 3D/Studio 4/scripts/Utilities/Add Levels of Detail.dse
WARNING: Script Error: Line 101
WARNING: SyntaxError: too few arguments in call to getOptions(); candidates are
getOptions(DzFileIOSettings*,bool,QString)
WARNING: Stack Trace:
()@:101
Error in script execution!