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Things i've learned with the castle MMC About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Things i've learned with the castle MMC // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by jayr // Aug 20, 2008, 12:08am jayr Total Posts: 1074 this won't be news to a lot of people but here goes: 1. name your objects before you start to copy them, it's no fun trying to find which cube out of the 132 you've got in the LE is the one you need to retexture or group! 2. group your objects acording to texture in the LE, help with repainting later on. It also helps to group by what needs SDS and what doesn't. 3. read the manual before you start! i'm just realizing that there is a lot more to 7.6 than 6.6 and i wasn't fully up to speed on that one either! Post by Jack Edwards // Aug 20, 2008, 12:55am Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 7.6 has material instancing which can help as well if you want to use the same material on a lot of objects and want to be able to update it for all those objects at once instead of one at a time. Post by jayr // Aug 20, 2008, 7:40am jayr Total Posts: 1074 oh don't you worry jack i'm using that on this one as well :D all my model are being prepared so they have basic textures on them for when i set the scene up but when i come to render it i'll swap them for the real ones! 9another new thing i picked up on this project) Post by RAYMAN // Aug 20, 2008, 7:26pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 What I learned is that modeling is like eating .:p You take one mouthfull and then another one and the again...... until your chubby looking and overweight. I had to learn that you have to move some of your objects to a diet otherwise your poly count will explode and no longer let you render. Peter Post by kena // Aug 20, 2008, 7:33pm kena Total Posts: 2321 I'm just tickled that I was able to choose a subject that helps people learn things! I've learned so much from doing the challenges and it is so nice to know people learned from the subject I chose. Post by RAYMAN // Aug 20, 2008, 7:45pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Good choice Kena ! One that I didnt want to let go by ... Peter Post by Nez // Aug 26, 2008, 12:47am Nez Total Posts: 1102 What I learned is that modeling is like eating .:p You take one mouthfull and then another one and the again...... until your chubby looking and overweight. I had to learn that you have to move some of your objects to a diet otherwise your poly count will explode and no longer let you render. Peter Amen to that! I'm terrible for this kind of thing, I once built a 70MB scene by using multiple copies of a high poly object.... try to be a bit more careful these days but still regularly find rendering slow going.... At least your dieting worked on your castle scene, shame you ran in to computer problems. Kena - no doubt you're (justifiably) pleased at the number of entrants, surely a record for the MMC. There's been a general improvment in activity on the SMC too for a few weeks so it looks like you chose a good time to host the challenge. Hope the momentum keeps up. Great subject. Post by jamesmc // Aug 26, 2008, 3:32am jamesmc Total Posts: 2566 this won't be news to a lot of people but here goes: 1. name your objects before you start to copy them, it's no fun trying to find which cube out of the 132 you've got in the LE is the one you need to retexture or group! 2. group your objects acording to texture in the LE, help with repainting later on. It also helps to group by what needs SDS and what doesn't. 3. read the manual before you start! i'm just realizing that there is a lot more to 7.6 than 6.6 and i wasn't fully up to speed on that one either! What are you a freaking communista? Read the manual? Come on! :D Post by jayr // Aug 26, 2008, 7:29am jayr Total Posts: 1074 What are you a freaking communista? Read the manual? Come on! :D Hey i know it's an extreme idea but damnit it just might work :D

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