Atangeo has released version 1.0 of their ‘Balancer’ product, a mesh simplification and optimization tool.
Balancer utilizes a high quality, high performance polygon reduction (aka polygon simplification or decimation) to preserve the visual appearance of your model. Polygon reduction is computed for all possible levels of detail (LOD) in one shot. This entire LOD hierarchy allows you instantly pick a required optimized model that gives the best trade-off between visual appearance and the number of triangles.
It’s currently available in 3 versions:
- Demo – Fully features, but no save ability
- Lite – fully functional, but limited to 15,000 triangles and 10,000 vertices
- Main – The full version, sells for $52 or $26 (separate commercial/noncommercial versions).
