Hi

how are you?

my model I'm using is found here dropbox.com/s/emp2t0lu6034a92/Mymesh.blend?dl=0

I've set up the vertex groups correctly in it

I couldn't provide this model in the question as it belongs to a friend who doesn't want me to share it. So if you could please advise how this can be done on this model and then it should be the same on the other simple model I provided in my question. I'm thankful in advance

Hello @Tak

I am good. What about you ?

I'll have a look. OK for the mesh, but I still don't get the point... how to know which part to keep if this is to be simplified ?

@lemon that's good, I hope you will always be good. I'm good as well, thank you.

So you saw the model?

hi again. Yes I've seen it

Okay, so you saw the vertex groups?

Basically I want it to be very simple mesh but to have the outer regions of the current vertex groups

outer regions ?

So in the model I sent you if you view it from the right view, then in edit mode select the right hand vertex groups then I want this region in the simple mesh to have the same vertex groups but with less vertices

Will try to explain with a screenshot, 1 sec

ok

so the highlighted region in the simplified one will have the same region but with even one face or couple.

ok, I see the principle even if I do not understand how you want to use that...

okay

so I want to use it as the model is very complex and during the animation of this model I set the vertex groups material which makes it very heavy due to the big number of vertices so I want this simple model which will be static with low vertices to display materials on it

I know many people as the opposite to change from 2d to 3d :)

ok... I have an idea... so I'll try to do something and we'll see if it can meet what you want

okay, thank you very much

I'll wave you here as soon I can

by the way, are you familiar with operators,...

?

a bit

okay, as I've been trying to do something, but will let you know after this one so that it's one thing at a time

you think it will take you long?

as it's 1am here and I can barely open my eyes :)

but I can wait, it's alright (if it's not couple of hours lol)

don't hope anything before at least two hours I think... so probably tomorrow for you!

okay, no worries, just ping me whenever you want and I'll reply as soon as I see it

let me ask you the other questions quickly as I think they are not that hard

you know in quadview that the view rotation is locked?

yes

except one of them if I remember well

so I wanted to do the same thing so I have couple of layers in my scene, each layer is opened in a 3dview window. One of the layers (which is viewed in one of the 3d views) I don't want the user to be able to rotate in the scene using the middle mouse button.

I found the script found here blender.today/p/addons/6xbbbc/… and gist.githubusercontent.com/Fweeb/bb61c15139bff338cb17/raw/…

which does it in three lines of code, but I wonder how I can do it without the need to install this as an addon, like I want to use this layout.prop(context.space_data.region_3d, 'lock_rotation', text='Lock View Rotation') for a specific 3dview in my file

@Tak, sorry... I'm in phone call for my job and that will take a long...

no worries, take your time

I appreciate your help anyway

you can reply whenever you have the time and I'll reply as soon as I see it

@Tak, an answer is written, but not sure about how you can use it...