Atangeo Balancer v2

Professional polygon reduction tool

Balancer is a geometry reduction tool that puts your 3D polygonal models (triangles) in balance

  • Fast, robust and production tested;
  • Quickly and easily find your perfect balance between visual appearance and the number of polygons;
  • Optimise your models even further for best visualisation performance depending on your rendering method.
  • RRP: £33.99
  • Our Price: £33.99 (approx. $52 or 41EUR)
  • Balancer for OS X
  • Balancer for Windows

Software Trial

To ensure this software meets your needs we suggest that you download and test the free trial software before you purchase a commercial license from the Guild:

Pixel-based tolerance simplification?

Balancer is all about polygon reduction/mesh simplification and this new option in Balancer v2 allows you to simplify a mesh whilst maintaining it's visual appearance (silhouette) within a given pixel tolerance. For example, if you set a limit of 3 pixels and have your viewport size set to 1024px, then Balancer will preform a mesh reduction whilst preserving the silhouette of the model so that it will will not distort by more than 3 pixels within your view.

About Balancer

Balancer won't typically need more than 75 Mb of memory to optimize a 1 million triangle model in less than 10 seconds. It is accurate and utilizes a high quality polygon reduction (aka mesh simplification or decimation) to preserve the visual appearance of your model. Moreover, the model features including normals, texture coordinates, material or layer boundaries are all honored during the reduction process.

This is the commercial version of Atangeo's Balancer and it requires a License Key to function. The key will be emailed to you separately within a few hours of purchase, however, it may take up to 12 hours or so depending upon time of purchase.

What's new in version v2?

  • Precise pixel-based tolerance simplification

What's new in version v1.5.1?

  • Simplification: even further improved robustness and feature preservation
  • New mesh processing: T-Junction elimination
  • New: show/hide applies on multiple selected objects
  • New: isolation of displaying selected objects for easier inspection
  • New: ability to save/export selected and/or visible objects only
  • New: customization of mouse wheel direction
  • Many minor fixes and improvements
  • Mac: random crashes on some systems are finally fixed
  • Balancer for Mac is now officially stable!

Key Features

  • High quality, high performance mesh simplification
  • Construction of the entire LOD hierarchy in one shot
  • An advanced user interface to instantly select an optimized model with the desired number of triangles
  • Texture coordinates preservation
  • Normals can be either preserved or recomputed
  • Preservation and simplification of the model boundaries
  • Boundaries defined by discontinuities of materials, layers, texture coordinates are supported
  • Visualization of boundaries
  • Joining of vertices given a user-specified threshold
  • Joining of normals and texture coordinates to eliminate corresponding false boundaries
  • Effective, high performance mesh stripification
  • Fast and intelligent triangle reordering for best visualization performance depending on your rendering method
  • Target rendering methods are: Triangle strips, general rendering, array/buffer/index based rendering
  • Supported 3D formats: Wavefront (.obj)
  • Supported image formats:
    JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PPM, PBM

Delivery Method: Instant Access Digital Download

You can download your items immediately after purchase via a link on our checkout pages. We will also send you an email containing your unique download link.

Please note that we do not post or otherwise provide hard/physical copies.

Download Content

  • Atangeo Balancer v2; 9MB zip file.
  • License key will be sent separately by email.

Requirements

Windows (XP, Vista or 7) or OS X (10.5, 10.6). Please be careful and choose the correct version for your OS.