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Geometry Script comes with Unreal Engine; no separately purchased plugin is needed.

Saved ordinary mesh assets can be used without Mesh Works. Keep the source assets until you have checked the saved result.

Scene inputs can carry placement, material overrides and vertex colours into supported operations. Replacing an input can change what the next preview uses.

The protection brush marks details for supported geometry operations. Adjust the radius and inspect both sides of thin walls. Source or placement changes clear the marks.

Cancel is handled at cancellation points. A large calculation can take a moment to reach the next one.

Super automatic can repair and reduce geometry, remove enclosed parts when combining, create LOD0–LOD6, and bake a new shared material with the required maps.

Rebuild UVs controls the layout. Off uses suitable existing UVs; on requests a new layout.

Keep complex materials takes a different material route: copies of the existing materials and textures are kept instead of a shared appearance bake.

When the selected workflow includes retopology after reduction, it rebuilds the reduced working mesh. The separate Retopology tool does not require a simplification pass first.

Higher reduction strength asks for fewer triangles. It is a request, not a percentage of guaranteed visual improvement.

Recommendation suggests a starting point from the source and protection settings. It does not promise a fixed count or a particular frame-rate gain.

Protected boundaries, material seams and small parts can limit reduction. Texture size and triangle count are separate expenses; a smaller mesh can still wear very large textures.

Input density uses the input triangle count as a guide and disables the manual target and reduction percentage. It does not request preliminary simplification.

Adaptive detail aims for larger cells on broad surfaces and smaller cells where the surface changes. More protected detail can require more cells.

Sharper-edge guidance uses the selected angle threshold; the supplied settings default to 30°. Increase protection thoughtfully on noisy scans.

Transition triangles or other polygons may remain where the grid needs them. Unreal stores the saved mesh as triangles, so ordinary wireframe also shows cell diagonals.

Accurate and Super accurate can take longer. A target and a surface tolerance are guides for reviewing the result, not guarantees of an exact count or an identical silhouette.

Local cleanup can patch small defects. Close holes additionally attempts open boundaries across the mesh.

Windows, doorways and the mouth of a barrel may be deliberate openings. Inspect them before saving.

The shape-change limit can undo individual repairs that move the surface beyond its tolerance. Increase it only when that movement is acceptable.

The manual arrangement belongs to Mesh Works; scene actors are not required for this workflow.

Union works with solid inputs. Open shells, thin walls and difficult intersections need inspection and may need repair first. There is no separate subtraction tool in this version.

Blending creates UVs and bakes a shared material near the intersections. Width is in centimetres; strength controls the transition. It is saved into textures and does not add a runtime blend effect.

Material UVs and lightmap UVs serve different purposes. Keep their channels distinct when the mesh needs both.

A new layout does not repaint the material by itself. Baking transfers the appearance to the prepared UVs.

Large empty gaps waste texture space; islands packed too tightly can bleed at smaller mip levels. Inspect more than the full-resolution image.

The original stays available during preparation, so detail can be transferred to the final result. Fine texture detail cannot replace a missing silhouette or an opening.

A search distance that is too large can capture the neighbouring surface. Too small can miss detail. Fingers, lips and thin shells deserve a close look.

Shared-material capture is intended for Static Meshes. Animated, view-dependent or displaced materials can need Keep complex materials instead.

Check whether exported separate maps were assigned automatically; otherwise connect them to the intended material. Inspect transparency in the scene.

Smaller textures save memory at the cost of fine detail. Inspect the asset at its intended camera distance.

Some source formats or custom texture data cannot be resized safely. The report identifies resources that were kept.

Keeping existing materials preserves their behaviour more closely than a shared bake. The saved route uses its own resource copies, including suitable textures whose dimensions do not change.

When protection for these extras is enabled and extras are present, geometry is kept while textures can still be optimised.

Without that protection, rebuilt geometry receives the main skin weights. Existing morphs, clothing and extra profiles remain in the source and may need to be prepared again for the new mesh.

A good reference pose does not prove good deformation. Use several clips that bend the joints you care about.

Full shared-material baking is a Static Mesh workflow. Mesh Works does not author skeletal Physics Assets.

Surface collision follows the triangles for static objects. Moving physics objects generally need suitable simple shapes or convex hulls.

Each convex shape is solid. Several hulls may be needed around a hole; one hull across the whole object can close it.

Coverage and gap checks sample points. They help find problems but do not prove that every small feature is covered.

The saved copy keeps the visual LODs, UVs, materials and sockets. Skeletal Physics Asset authoring is outside this tool.

LOD0 is the closest, most detailed level. Later levels should spend less geometry where distance hides it.

Texture memory estimates and triangle counts do not measure frame rate. Use Unreal's profiling tools in the scene that matters.

A stopped or failed item does not mean every other item failed. Review the individual tasks.

Suitable identical results can be reused. Different assets can still need different protection and texture budgets.

With dictionary protection enabled, a *_Keep rule enables geometric protection. *_Background requests smaller default budgets.

The dictionary recognises naming rules, not anatomy. A file name cannot tell it where a dragon keeps its knees.

History does not recover deleted or missing source assets. Keep source files and project backups separately.

Processing a preview does not overwrite the original. Ordinary saved mesh assets do not need Mesh Works for display.

The report separates actual counts, estimated resources and warnings. Estimated memory savings are not a frame-rate benchmark.

For saving problems, check the output path, write permissions and Unreal log before repeating the operation.