lowering the polycount

[simtarts]

This morning I am on a mission to rid my game of all the super high-poly hairs (+10,000) that I've downloaded over the last few months. This has left me with almost NO coolsims hairs, alas, but honestly, those are probably the worst offenders. His hairs are very pretty, but I almost NEVER put them on a sim anyway because I know just how high poly

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[niloublue]

I deleted some very high polys hairs too, yesterday, after reading what some people (Theraven, CrabofDom and a few others) wrote in the Best Finds discussion thread! My computer runs quite smoothly, but I really don't want it to get ruined by too many polys! X)
Also, I can Pooklet some of the hair in your list, they all have so much potential, but they really need bettet textures! :D
*opens BS & Photoshop!*

[simtarts]

My computer is pretty old, so I'd just prefer to err on the side of safety, for the most part. I have a feeling I should probably get rid of some of these newsea hairs that I don't know the polycount of, because they're probably high. :(

You are too sweet! I really wasn't trying to coerce anyone on my flist into pook'ing hairs for me, but more wishing that instead of pook'ing only "new hairs," people would revisit some old ones. :D If you manage to do any of these, though, I'd be hugely grateful!!

[niloublue]

Haha, don't worry! I love to revamp old meshes and your post inspired me quite a bit! I just need to figure why the booty isn't working for me, meh, I am really curious to see if some 'Pookleting' can rescue the Peggy M0464 and those Rose hairs!

[simtarts]

Which meshes do you need? I might have some of them....

[mikelisryker]

Gosh, I really wish there was a list too. I could use one. I think I need to prune my hairs, since the hair folder in my game has climbed to over 1.2 GB

[simtarts]

My hair folder is my biggest, too. By far!

[engram_au]

I'll take a look at those hairs for you. Just from looking at the picture I don't think I'll be able to do the emo hair but the rest of them are possibly within my ability range. I'm pretty sure I've seen Peggy 4423 retextured but that may have use a Nouk texture rather than Pooklet's. Ditto Rose 71. I know Selzi has them with Nouk textures at your links, but I'm almost positive I've seen them on either an LJ or on GOS. I'm going to download them and take a look anyway. It won't hurt to do them again since I'll use the full range of the new Pooklet actions, anyway, which the older retextures would not have done.

[simtarts]

I think I have seen some of these with Nouk textures, which would be something I could live with, but not something I would prefer, per se.

Thank you for even attempting any of these. :) No big deal if you don't manage! Requests can always be made and fulfilled elsewhere, and this wasn't even meant to be a request post in the first place, hah!

[6akalaka1]

If you ever wonder about a particular mesh (or meshes) polycount, there is a thread at SimsCave, where you can ask. People are really good about replying there.

[simtarts]

Oh, thank you! This is incredibly helpful to know.