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Decimation Master question

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#1

I am taking my first zbrush class. Since we are just focusing on fundamentals, we were told that polycount wasn’t really an issue with this one. So this guy is at 14 million. Since the class is online and my connection is slow, I tried to use decimation master to take it down a little. It tells me my computer can’t do it due to lack of memory. I am running a 3.4 GHz mac with 32 gigs of memory. Am I really pushing zbrush past what it can do or am i doing something wrong?

Picture attached in case it helps for some reason.

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#2

turn your preferences.mem.compact mem up to 4096.

delete any extra tools from your project (assuming you’re using one).

are you decimating everything at once, or one subtool at a time?

#3

I’m just trying to decimate the body at the moment. I just wanted to check since it’s my first real run at the plugin. I’ll try the steps you suggested when I get home this evening and post results. Thank you for the response!