Blender Tutorial - How to use the Decimate Modifier

Today, we learn how to reduce the number of vertices and faces in our mesh, by using the Decimate modifier feature in Blender!

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[gabrielclaredo]

Ive actually been struggling with this one 3D model for days because it was too complex and i needed a low poly, thank u so much!!

[anautisticbread]

Thnx a Lot, you saved my project and my computer from exploding... rlly appreciate it !

[gdat]

825k faces reducing to 180k...
My rig is now on fire.

[esrom]

Hi I have made a super super high poly objects it has 1.680 million faces and when I try to decimate it doesnt work!

[hannankhan]

man this saves me doing a remodeling of a cloth thank man

[Justini]

I'm a dingus, this was to show an example, LOL! I'm hiding the view of the effect until I hit apply, and saving the first Decimations into files in case of a crash, then opening the lower polys to edit from. Think it's working! :)

[synapse]

thx so much i was trying to add a skeleton to my mesh but it had 7.5 million faces so ye no wonder it worked thx for this tutorial

[johnlannikk]

Nice Tut man! Life saver. Once again proves how powerful Blender is

[techdiyer]

I need to refine text on an object that i need to manufacture on a 3D printer, how do i maintain quality in certain areas?

[Cooleyrw]

Handy for prepping models for printing! Thanks

[CheriseChattoway]

It's nice to see you're still being responsive in the comments for this video!
I seem to be having a problem, as I try to sub-divide with my object selected in object mode, the faces are not reducing at all and there's no preview loading. the face count is about 9, 500 and no matter how much I move the slider and wait, it never goes down?

[alexbobyr]

Thank You for the fast and simple solution.

[KelvinCipta]

Really helpful. It's great for game dev

[DAKIWIBORD]

This was very useful even if it's not the same version! It cut the faces in two! Thank you!

[ashinisam]

Thanq ...for ur simple and understanding explanation.

[sirfrancisarthur]

it's on 2 now but my file is still 579MB takes 2 hours or so to calc - trying to find how you saved it if I need click something but you didn't show

The program that I"ve always been using, 3D Builder also has a good answer to this. I managed to get that file down to a few Kb
Anyway got multiple options now with Blender and 3D Builder

[dandantsm]

ok but... how do i get there where you're doing this??
:')
some people don't know they're way all around blender

[Ryor]

uhh i dont know why, but this doesnt seem to help, when i increase un-subdivide iterations it just does nothing, and the number of tris is the same
do i need to select the faces or what?

[AlexLashko]

Thanks for this tutorial. Trying to reconstruct subdivision, similar like in ZBrush. In my case the Decimate Modifier works well on the mesh, but it messes up the UV's at the places where seams are. Is there any way to avoid this bug? ZBrush seems to handle reconstructions with no problem.

[dopplah]

I did it, and now the reflection is bothering me, is showing the polygons very shamelessly
Any way that the reflection don't really show up that much the polygons?