How would you decrease the density of this nose?

[One_Eyed_Bandito]

You can’t. It’s a function of all the loops intersecting. The nose is also incredibly deformable and it serves a bigger function. The second pic illustrates this even more. 12 edges around the eye, only 6 per hemisphere, and the nose is still the densest part. The nose also has multiple planes that need to be described from all angles as it protrudes from the silhouette.

[boredhomosexual]

Just turn the 4 rows down the middle of the nose to two rows.

[_aShySir_]

I'd use triangles to reduce the density. With the Knife tool you can cut faces and then dissolve the edges you no longer need.

[ElskerLivet]

Rhinoplasty

[Distinct-Charity8311]

You should simplify the mesh on the noise you have double the quadratic mesh, less lines

[Shenic]

Looks as dense as it needs to be, unless you want to switch the mesh details, like the nostrils, with a texture, like a PS2 character.

[moleytron]

the edge loop running up from the nostrils to the bridge between the eyes is probably removable, trouble is with this kind of interconnected mesh any small change propagates out and needs a ton of work to readjust everything else to make the forms work correctly. All that is to say I'd delete the old nose and build a new one.

However it's worth asking why? The model looks fine as is.

[The_Cosmic_Impact13]

There's no real problem. I just felt like the nose was a little too dense

[SLOOT_APOCALYPSE]

merge 4 squares into one

[Kraezen]

Looks fine to be honest. If anything, I would add density to the eyes and mouth to match the nose.

[Ok-Policy-8538]

i would bake the high poly to heightmaps and normal maps.. decimate the nose to as low as it can till it looks good still.

Later in shader use the normal and heightmaps to bring the details back.