Just did some rough testing for:
1. Creating a young child avatar in CC3 by reducing-down an 'adult' avatar - (which seemed to turn out reasonably well), and,
2. The LOD feature (for creating 'low poly' crowd extras).

I was surprised how "low" you can go for video use - down to an amazing 1.5k polys (when viewed in the *small test version*).
Obviously finer detail such as 'fingers' start to suffer at these extremes (as seen in the larger test) - but when far enough away it's fine ....
The 50k avatar (which has the 'blinking') is the 'original' - with no LOD reduction performed.
Well done Reallusion!




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Thanks for sharing your feedback. We appreciate it. :) 

                                                                

Peter
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and here is a Clip with LOD-Avatars
https://forum.reallusion.com/396488/Thirty-Years-War-excerpt
Greets Postfrosch



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Yikes!  Are you prepping a remake of "Village of the Damned"? ;-)  Surprisingly good result with that huge reduction... I would've thought 40% would be the breaking point.

Hey Sonic,
could you please detail the exact steps/settings in Instalod how you made those?
I did a test a few weeks ago and could not get an acceptable character so low...
Would be great ;)

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@Peter .... thank-you 
@Postfrosch .... Nice! 
@Mark .... lol - and yes, I found that the 'trick' seems to be with the 'when' and 'where' of *smoothing*, as shown below. 
@Toystory .... Here's the approach I took, - let's know if anything's unclear -  :)




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Please be patient with me ..... I don't always 'get it' the first time 'round - not even the 2nd time! :(  - yikes! ... 

● MSI GT72VR Laptop, i7 7700HQ 4-Core 3.8 GHz 16GB RAM; Nvidia 1070, 8GB Vram ● iClone-7.93 ● 3DXChange Pipeline 7.81 ● CC-3 Pipeline 3.44 ● Live Face ● HeadShot ● Brekel Pro-Body ● Popcorn FX ● iRAY ● Kinect V2 ● DaVinci Resolve17 ● Mixcraft 8.1

This is really cool...it would be cool to see a bunch of low res characters with varying motions mapped to a particle system!

Sorry for my late reply...
Very busy and i did some modifications to my rig, finally got a 1080 Ti :D
Thanx for the explanations of your LOD approach!
Works better now...



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Thank you for these specific steps. I wish we could directly send it to iClone instead of having to take an in between step.

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Wow!  Very clever, wonderfully cinematic camerawork. Amazing!!!