Actually I also thought balancer was a very useful product but sadly it creates dozens of surfaces which adds to drawcall count. For example I did some tests and found some meshes had gained 30-50 extra drawcalls which defeats the purpose for me as I am trying to reduce the tri's as well as the drawcalls. The daz decimator maintains the original surfaces which is how it should be.

I purchased the Atangeo NPro Balancer and yes it does extremely well in reducing polys BUT at a price - i.e. by increasing the surfaces ugh!!!

So does this affect the DAZ to iClone usefulness or for another use like Unity? Is Daz decimator better/same/worse than nPro Balancer?
Thanks,
TS

try it before you buy it, on some occasions balancer has wrecked my uvs. For the most part it works great, but every once in a while, it leaves you wondering "what just happened?!" lol

I don't regret the purchase, but i find i need a few different options, just in case.

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Balancer is great , but it support only obj. Also I had never trouble with this. I have never lost the texture, or get a mess mesh .

The results are very good . I have other decimate tools in my toolbox for comparison but these works not so fine.

Of course now
I like more the DAZ Decimator, because it will keep the bones and finally DAZ Decimator is balancer SDK under the hood .

Therefore I recommend DAZ Decimator , but please not only drag the slider and go !


for the best results, select or create Surface groups for details weighting. Also set unnecessary regions to unvisible.

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