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Castle wip 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. Castle wip // Work in Progress 1  2  |   Order by default Post by RAYMAN // Aug 19, 2008, 6:35pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 As I dont have much time to redo all of what I had and I dont want the cup to be to facetted I have done some reduction on the wheels and struts and the cannonballs have lots less polys now and I also took away all the not necessary balls from the inside and lots less now on the rope ..... round 900 polys now ! a fraction of what it was ... Post by kena // Aug 19, 2008, 7:14pm kena Total Posts: 2321 very nice! you did a good job there. Here is a way to make something look smooth (not faceted) . Just go into mesh edit mode and select the faces of your cup and select the smooth normals tool 14429 Post by TomG // Aug 20, 2008, 4:42am TomG Total Posts: 3397 From almost 56,000 polys to just 900! That is an awesome reduction, over 98% smaller! That should be a big saver on memory, and should also get you back into being able to render in V-Ray (or at least puts you on track for that). Thanks for sharing the progress :) Tom Post by RAYMAN // Aug 20, 2008, 5:03am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Thank you Tom and thank you Kena ! I am already at spending all the gained capacity and experimented using the softpaint tool for terrain and the hair tool for grass. I used a wider shape then the standard from the advanced settings. Peter Post by Steinie // Aug 20, 2008, 5:25am Steinie Total Posts: 3667 Rayman, you crack me up! :D You just decreased your high polygon count and the first thing you do is add grass. Your like Mountain climber Hillary who when asked "why do you want to climb Mount Everest"? "Because I Can!" Post by RAYMAN // Aug 20, 2008, 6:20am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 LOL !:D Stenie I need the low poly for flythrough animation in Vue with the veg there but for the entry of this month I want some grass on the hills for my VRay render... ! Peter Post by Jack Edwards // Aug 20, 2008, 1:18pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 You can also use the hair tool for alpha mapped planes as Parva did in his grass example. I think that will give a better result with less geometry. :) Post by RAYMAN // Aug 20, 2008, 1:48pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Jack thank you i will try that but I run out of time for the submission so I will be working on that later I think. But kind of you to point me to it ! Peter Post by Jack Edwards // Aug 20, 2008, 1:59pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 This thread: http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=5211 Post #20 Post by RAYMAN // Aug 22, 2008, 1:47am RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Thank you Jack ! Unfortunatly I am affraid I will not make it for the deadline because my main computer is out of order ! I have a problemwith a Lycos company codec and it keeps restarting windows (Vista) all the time - a well known issue ! I had to bring it to a specialist because I do not want to set up the whole system from scratch .....all the data on it. That will keepme busy for some time i´m affraid but I will keep this thread updated as soon as I´m back onmy system. I write this from an internet cafe. ´Will be back soon ! Peter

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