Aten Skinner

Hi, I was trying to do something pretty basic today, just get rid of a bunch of triangle edges on a mesh. After trying and failing with the labs flat edges I tried plain old dissolve on a group I'd already made.

After getting weird results with that too (faces completely deleted) I decided to have a look at the test scene in the help file.

In that scene the node worked just fine, so i copy pasted it into my scene and lo and behold it did exactly what i wanted! Afterwards I noticed the one I had been using was Dissolve2.0 and the other one is a 'hidden' older one that you need to switch to, it's not in the menu.

I just wanted to say should the new one work the same? If so how do i get that result in the screenshot. And hopefully there's no plans to delete the old one because it seems to work ... dare I say ... better?

Here is a person who made a great implementation of what you want in Houdini.

If you search for the user name there's a page somewhere with a bit more detail on how they achieved it. However I don't think you will ever get a more in depth answer, as I think that person is now using it on an actual lego game project for a big studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_MBWceorJ8&ab_channel=PaQWaK [www.youtube.com]

Hi is there a way to make the target poly count output of this node take a multiplier? So I can use a measure or something in advance and get a consistent poly density across various meshes when used in a for loop?

cheers - Aten.