More Prim Cost Fun

[DanielRavenNest Noe]

I shrank my palm tree down until it's just a garden plant size, then linked three copies plus a box prim to make a decorative planter.  In separate pieces it costs 7 prims (2 each for the plants, 1 for the box).  Linked together it costs 3 prims, which is not bad.  The plant model is around 900 triangles, with a billboard for the lowest LOD and physics.

The prim costs still get outlandish when you use mesh for large objects, but for small things they can be reasonable if you link things together the right way and make a sacrifice to the prim gods:

 

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[Kris Messmer]

Sculpties are designed for small things, mesh should fill a gap where sculpties don't. Large builds that require hard edges and precise accuracy.

They don't.