Mesh Reduce and animation

[atmuc]

i reduced poly count of my mesh by keeping original. each time i try to move hand ik control Maya LT tries to reduce polys again. do i have to bake it before i start animation? how can i do that? delete by type/history?

[remimcgill]

So this one is more difficult.  Maya applies almost all operations as a stack, E.G. when you add the polyReduce it goes ON TOP of the skinning.  The fact that the Combine Mesh actually combines the skinning for you is actually not normally what an happens when you add something in Maya.

If you want to reduce polygons you need to reduce the polygons BEFORE the skinning is applied.  Which means you might need to reskin your character 😞  There are probably some scripts out there, that might help you transfer the old skinning to the new mesh as well.

Let us know how it goes,

Thanks,

Remi

[atmuc]

my workflow is like that;

i generate my high res model with Fuse

i upload this model to mixamo.com

i make it auto rig there

i import rigged fbx to Maya LT

i define skeleton to use Human IK

i also need low res model for mobile game. i don't want to lose rig info. it looks i need a script like you said, to transfer high res weightmaps to low res weightmaps. i hope i can find a script to do this.

[atmuc]

polyReduce also removes blendshapes. is there any way to keep blendshapes?

[remimcgill]

Unfortunately I don't know of any way that you can do poly reduction and not lose blend shapes in Maya LT.