Hi Steve,

GIF is no solution either. ;)

This format too will only save you harddisk space, but not affect the high memory usage inside Bryce (or Photoshop)! Applications will always use uncompressed bitmaps, to display and render the affected object. 

There can be quite a huge difference between FILE-size of a compressed bitmap/object/workfile and its actual physical size, if working with it inside an application.

The only solutions would be:

• To reduce e.g. 2048x2048 pixel sized highres bitmap-textures to 1024x1024 or lower (requiring only a quarter of their original area/size then).
• Or to remove bitmaps totally where suitable (e.g. for not used bumpmap or transparencies).
• Or to replace bitmaps with procedural textures (calculated with algorithms) in Bryce, where feasible.

What to do, always depends much on how many details you want to show and/or how distant your obects are placed in the scene. Esp if you will use witjh multiple objects and highres textures. 

Hubert

 

 

I have reduced my texture images in PhotoShop and saved them for the web (Gif.) anD have reduced the size of my one M4 model from 89+Mb down to 17Mb.... I'm sure that I will have no difficulty finishing my image with this knowledge and ... means of reducing the textures...

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