Forum: Freestuff


Subject: Geometry Stripper Application: for free

JHoagland opened this issue on Jan 24, 2008 · 21 posts


Stepdad posted Fri, 25 January 2008 at 1:49 PM

Quote - :ohmy:

" Because it was needed?"

*Does'nt geometry tell us Where something would be; why remove, or seperate,  that detail?

At first I was thinking that removing the data would make the file smaller; but then I realized removing the geometry data would just incure a need for another form of...Geometry!?

I guess just would'nt called this a Stripper; as much as a Seperator, or Externalizer?  But then again I still do'nt understand what the benefits are, here, at all?

 

Well, curiously enough Poser uses less memory to load the prop if the props you've loaded have external OBJ files as opposed to having the geometry imbeded into the pp2 file, so having an external .obj file is always much better in this regard.

Now granted, one can load a prop in poser, export the geometry to an obj file, then go back and edit the pp2 removing all the geometry information and putting in a statement to reference the new .obj file you've created, but this can be a bit time consuming particularly if you have quite a few pp2 files with internal geometry, so i can see a lot of use for a program like this personally.