https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3991&p=45451#p45451
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Nik
Wednesday, 16 September 2020, 07:00 PM

Re: Mesh Format Viewer / Conversion.
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The free open3D viewer has unsuspected talent.

I've just noticed it will usually open Terragen's otherwise intractable .TER files. And, yes, export to the 'Usual Suspects' such as OBJ+MTL.

Snag is a 514 KB TER file goes in, a Poser-choking ~ 35 MB OBJ writes out. I make that x70...

So, I've begun hunt for way to convert such half-million poly mesh to something more friendly.

Conversion to a height map would be neat, but non-trivial due to non-uniform mesh. Given even that might need lower poly count, I took a look for budget ways to 'lean down' mesh.

Yes, there's a free tool built into eg Blender, but I cannot work the UI.

I found Autodesk's free 'Meshmixer' which also has such a tool.

https://www.meshmixer.com/

I'll let you know how it fares...