MeshLab fails? or is it just me?

I recently followed an excellent tutorial posted on this site to build lower lods (mainly to combat the lag I experience at the start of any race and when the CPU starts doing its pit stops)

It all worked fine so no problems there, but I have since downloaded a couple other cars to replace the ones in atm but unfortunately my trial for Polygon Cruncher has expired and I am unwilling to spend US$129 for a piece of software I'm only going to use to reduce lods once or twice a year.

I came across MeshLab (open source free software! hooray!) and followed the tutorial up to where it starts describing the Polygon Cruncher procedure.

However when I attempt to open the 3ds file I get the following error message"

No Vertex Field Found.

And of course the file does not open...

Should I un-install MeshLab and look for something else thats free? Or is there a way to solve the issue?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/2009 07:15AM by DonMogul.