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Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ventilator] #62063 01/18/06 08:27 01/18/06 08:27
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth ello OP Senior Expert
ello OP Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	this sounds very interesting. what does it take as input file? i use c4d and normaly i export my files as 3ds to take them into med. www.earthcontrol.de quoted: We want to maintain a clean, decent, American family suited forum look... which means you may post zombies or chainsaw massacres, but no erotic.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ello] #62064 01/18/06 08:31 01/18/06 08:31
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441 ventilator Senior Expert
ventilator Senior Expert Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441	the input file is a mdl7. does your 3ds file come into med flawlessly (with groups and everything intact)? (before spreading this tool i would have to arrange this with jetpack_monkey though because i made it for her.)

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ventilator] #62065 01/18/06 08:34 01/18/06 08:34
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ello OP Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	yes, but i have to texture it separately because the textures arent loaded automatically. for your tool, do i need to have single meshes?? now i use one big mesh for every of those 11 parts (houses, sidewalks, etc) www.earthcontrol.de quoted: We want to maintain a clean, decent, American family suited forum look... which means you may post zombies or chainsaw massacres, but no erotic.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ello] #62066 01/18/06 08:52 01/18/06 08:52
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ventilator Senior Expert Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441	every part you want to split has to be in a separate mdl7 group for my tool. for example if you feed it landscape.mdl which has 5 huts on a hilly terrain in it and every hut is in a separate group it spits out: landscape_0001.mdl // contains the hilly terrain landscape_0002.mdl // hut 1 landscape_0003.mdl // hut 2 landscape_0004.mdl // hut 3 landscape_0005.mdl // hut 4 landscape_0006.mdl // hut 5 landscape.wmp // contains all models at their correct position i think med would load the textures for .x files automatically. isn't there a .x exporter for cinema4d? the new med can also import groups from .x files (and probably other formats too) so depending on your exporter and the format you use you could get a model with groups directly out of cinema4d.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ventilator] #62067 01/18/06 09:02 01/18/06 09:02
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ello OP Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	this sounds great. i hope jetpack_monkey allows it:) www.earthcontrol.de quoted: We want to maintain a clean, decent, American family suited forum look... which means you may post zombies or chainsaw massacres, but no erotic.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ventilator] #62068 01/18/06 09:05 01/18/06 09:05
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ulillillia Senior Expert Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,818 Minot, North Dakota, USA	I just realized something. For all those textures you have, 11 2048x2048's, you'd need 132 MB in video memory thus it would only work on cards of 256 MB or more. You should consider lowering this to at most 64 MB. "You level up the fastest and easiest if you do things at your own level and no higher or lower" - useful tip My 2D game - release on Jun 13th; My tutorials

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ulillillia] #62069 01/18/06 09:16 01/18/06 09:16
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Matt_Aufderheide Expert M Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,131	Quote: I just realized something. For all those textures you have, 11 2048x2048's, you'd need 132 MB in video memory thus it would only work on cards of 256 MB or more. You should consider lowering this to at most 64 MB. it can still work on cards with lower memory. This is because of memory paging and also mipmapping. If your textures in the distance are mipmapped, then they dont need the the fullsize texture... However you will get slowdown when swapping textures in memory. One way i can think of to make this work better is to simply make LOD models, and have the LODs use a much smaller texture, that way only rarely will more than one full size texture be displayed at once. Sphere Engine--the premier A6 graphics plugin.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: Matt_Aufderheide] #62070 01/18/06 09:30 01/18/06 09:30
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ello OP Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	sadly not in my case, because yet all small houses are one model, all skycrapers are one model and so on. so you are always surrounded by one model. lod cant work there. i think ventilators tool would be the best choice and in that case i can create lots of small parts since i dont have to place them manually. www.earthcontrol.de quoted: We want to maintain a clean, decent, American family suited forum look... which means you may post zombies or chainsaw massacres, but no erotic.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ello] #62071 01/18/06 10:21 01/18/06 10:21
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ventilator Senior Expert Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,441	btw. why don't you use dds textures? their size would be 6 times smaller. splitting the model into some smaller pieces probably would be advantageous nevertheless since a single huge model has absolutely no (frustum) culling.

Re: possibly one of the dumbest questions ever, bu [Re: ventilator] #62072 01/18/06 10:30 01/18/06 10:30
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ello OP Senior Expert Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,939 planet.earth	how do i create this dds? www.earthcontrol.de quoted: We want to maintain a clean, decent, American family suited forum look... which means you may post zombies or chainsaw massacres, but no erotic.

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