Polygon Crusher 9000

Production-grade mesh decimation for Blender. Millions of polygons in seconds, with the look of the original intact.

Polygon Crusher 9000 turns heavy scans, sculpts, CAD imports and AI-generated models into light, clean, real-time-ready assets. Set a target, press Crush, and get an exact result, with no settings to tune.

Key Features

• Native C++ engine: multi-million-triangle meshes in seconds, with multiple objects processed in parallel across your CPU cores.
• Exact targets: crush by percentage, by exact triangle count, or to a single triangle budget shared across the whole selection.
• Normal and color map baking: bake high-poly detail and vertex colors onto the low-poly mesh at up to 4K, with automatic, seam-free UVs and materials wired up for you.
• Hard Surface mode: sharp edges, open borders, material boundaries and UV seams stay precisely in place for clean CAD and hard-surface results.
• One-click LODs: a complete LOD chain of up to 8 levels, each crushed from the original and organised in its own collection.
• Detail preservation: keeps the original shading and UVs, and protects any area you paint into a vertex group.
• Clean Mesh: repairs duplicate vertices, degenerate faces and floating debris common in AI and scan data before crushing.
• Non-destructive workflow: modifier-aware, keeps your original, and reverts in one click.

Ideal For

3D scans and photogrammetry, sculpts, AI-generated models, CAD and hard-surface assets, game-ready LODs, and real-time, AR/VR and web delivery.

What's New in 2.3

• Normal map and base color baking onto the crushed mesh.
• Automatic seam-free UVs for meshes without them.
• Hard Surface mode for CAD and hard-surface models.
• Improved results on clean CAD tessellation.
• User presets now store preservation settings.

Compatibility

• Blender 4.2 and newer (tested on 5.2), installed as an Extension.
• Windows (x64), macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux (x64 and ARM64).
• Self-contained: no Python packages or additional installs required.

Part of the 9000 series of professional tools for Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.