Using Blender 2.5 to break a mesh into pieces for use on Unity3D?

Hi, I have been trouble importing my mesh (made with MakeHuman) into Unity3D. You see, I exported it as a .fbx, which works, but when I import a character mesh, I can't view them do to the mesh having more than 65000 triangles (whatever that means). So, I looked online only to discover that I have to break my mesh up into pieces, export them as .fbx in Blender, and import them into Unity. However, I have no idea how to break the mesh into pieces, then putting them back together. Any help with this?
Thanks.

 

if your model is a human, you should never see that error cause anything beyond 10k-20k with animation is not going to give much joy anyway ...

Potentially you by error created a character targeted purely at movie / image rendering instead of realtime?

 

Right, your model needs to have far fewer triangles to begin with. Breaking it up isn't the answer, using a model appropriate for game development is.

--Eric

 

Thanks for the replies. So basically I can't use MakeHuman to generate my character. Does this mean I would have to create a human based mesh from scratch?

 

either from scratch or seriously reduce the generated amount of polygons and vertices

 

Sorry for my numerous questions....(I just started using Blender) how do I go about reducing polygons and vertices?

 

If you've never used a 3D modeling program, I suggest you start learning from scratch. Going into any significant detail on such a complex issue if you have no background will only make things much harder.

In essence, what you want to do is retopologize the high-res mesh or build a new low-poly model around it.

 

Thanks for the tips everyone. Okay, so I have made the mesh low-poly, making it import flawlessly in Unity3D, with armature and everything, however, my colors and particles that were on it disappeared. Any help with this? Or should I really be asking this on a Blender forum?
Thanks.

 

Particles from other apps don't translate to Unity. You can assign materials to meshes in Unity.

--Eric

 

Really? That sounds better, I hated using Blender to make particles. Okay thanks everyone for the help.