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Originally Posted by tobian

Thanks very much for your compliments al However I do separate non-destructive reductions and destructive one's as a separate thing. If you are going for a production thing then yes, it's excessive, but this is a hobby project. If he wants too many polies for his pipes THEN HE CAN, it's not an optimisation competition! If he wants the hints, he wants them, if not, he doesn't and I can't blame him from staying away, there are some heavyweights weighting in with their opinions, but it's just that: Lets remember this is about HELP not persecution, hence my post was about suggestion and ideas, not just opinion. Calm down people! this is about help, hints and suggestions, not absolutes of opinions, remeber: You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink!

You're looking at this the wrong way mate. now one is talking about destructive reduction. As to the pro and hobbiest thing, that's BS and you know it..hehe. a good model is a good model period. Optimization as a much an part of CG as Painting, modeling, surfacing, etc etc. how many people on SFM can model as they want, yet can't paint for a New York Minute!..some for optimization realy. it's not a Choice, it's a skill every modeler needs to learn.