Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: 3D models which are much bigger than they need be

buckrogers opened this issue on Oct 02, 1999 ยท 3 posts


buckrogers posted Sat, 02 October 1999 at 3:10 PM

Not directly related to posing, but to 3D models in general: what is your experience in coming across models containing far more polygons than needed? For example today I came an .OBJ model which used half a megabyte (6314 polygons) to represent such a simple shape as a baseball bat! (I trimmed it down to 373 polygons and it still looks lifelike if smoothed when rendered.) In the same set I came across an inflatable boat with an outboard motor, which unzipped to 4.5 megabytes!, and most of this was 19272 polygons for the propeller!, 11040 polygons for the little tying-on eyes round its edge!!, and 5576 polygons for its fuel tank (which is quite a simple shape). (A boat propellor model that I made has 768 polygons: it is in the Poser Fun Stuff).)