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For more on the parameters watch the official tutorial.SPECIAL EVENT PRODUCTION THE RESOURCES Doug MatthewsД«utterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of ElsevierД«utterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA First edition 2008 Copyright В© 2008, Elsevier Ltd. Occlusion, helps to decrease importance in hard to see places. Ironically enabling this will need a length calculation once but after thatвЂ™s done fine tuning visibility should be much smoother. Helps to maintain contours when the point cloud is unevenly distributed around the high polygon mesh.Д«lur spreads the importance values which is often required to avoid sudden changes in polycount during poly reduction.ДЇast mode is required for complex voxelized geometry where tweaking the point cloud or the values above is not fast enough to be interactive. Ray length is how far the points can see while Edge fade distance is how long the importance decreases nearing the max ray length.Д¬ontour strength controls how much extra importance to assign to surfaces at glancing angles. (ItвЂ™s the 3 point curve being edited on the image to the left.)

When its Weight is greater than 0 then visibility from the points in Point cloud source is used to determine importance. The following factors can contribute to the final value:

The Delete zero importance bits flag will delete unimportant polygons, leaving holes in the mesh. The values are visualized and range from 0 (dark red) to 1 (white). Next up is calculating importance for poly reduction.

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