easy removal of extra verts?

[percydaman]

I just performed a shape merge on a piece of geometry and now have all these extra verts that aren't connecting more then 3 edges. Is there a script that will find these lonely verts and remove them? I searched scriptspot but didn't really find anything.

[Dynedain]

Here's my thought...

Edit Poly modifier, switch to element subobject mode (the cube), select the elements you want to keep, hold down ctrl while switching to vertex mode, select inverse (edit pulldown), delete.

[percydaman]

that doesn't really work, as when i click on elements, everything is one element. Try picturing a terrain where I imported cad lines for curbs and such and shape merged them. The spline with its verts merged with the terrain plane object creating alot of unneccessary verts. I want them removed.

[Morbid Angel]

i think there is a modifier something like - normalize spline...check it out.

[Codi]

If the vertex are floating without any kind of connection you can try:

1- Select the mesh/poly.
2- Go to vertex level.
3- Hit 'Remove Isolated Vertices'

[percydaman]

thanks for the help so far. Im aware of the normalize spline modifier, but not sure how it would help me? Unfortunately these extra verts are connected by 2 edges, which makes them unneccessary but not floating without a connection. Ive been just removing them old school style so far.

[dbuchhofer]

turn to poly modifier will remove mid edge verts.

i definitely recall seeing a script for something similar also, but i can't remember what it would be called.

[VKNT]

turn to poly modifier will remove mid edge verts.

Do you mean add edit poly modifier? I can't see vertices go away or do I see/understand this wrong?

I use shapemerge alot and having the same problem all the time. A fair deal of them I try to solve with weld, as they are mostly very close to other unnecessary verts. The rest is old skool remove... I hope there are not to much of them percy

[dbuchhofer]

nope, the modifier is actually called 'turn to poly' for some reason

[percydaman]

ill be damned if that didn't do EXACTLY what I needed! MUCHAS GRACIAS!!

[VKNT]

Sorry for the misunderstanding dbuchhofer

But again, it doesn't remove those damn vertices
I unchecked/checked everything in the modifier..
Does it work with you percy?

[dlparisi]

Works for me here on Max 9. If I followed percy's dilema correctly, I made plane, created some text and shapemerged it onto the plan and got a lot of extra vertices that I didn't need. Added a Turn to Poly Modifier and it removed the extra-vertices like he needed. The key checkbox is the "remove Mid-Edge vertices". Cool.

[percydaman]

ya it worked for me. max 9. by default the remove mid vertices was checked. There were a few stray vertices it missed but frankly it got like the hundreds i didn't get manually.

[VKNT]

Allrighty, works here too now. Perfect modifier for that job. Thanks for the tips .... and the patience till I got it right