Will Mesh have the same troubles as some sculpties?

[Freecilla Kuhn]

I have noticed many older sculpties load extremely fast, so fast they are unnoticeable, they are just there. However other sculpties take an extremely long long time to load. Is this because they are made using a less effective program? I use as few sculpties as possible because of this long long loading time. Will some Meshies have this long loading time too? Gosh I hope not!

[Nix Manx]

Not sure what it will be like on the main grid but so far on the test grid meshes load extremely fast compared to scuplties, however I expect it depends how much other stuff is around you at the time.

[Nathaniel Flores]

A lot of times sculpty load times depend on the size of the sculpt map image. 64x64 sculpt maps rez pretty quick. Someone that used a 1024x1024 image as their sculpt map will have the sculpty take a long time to load.

I am not aware of a reason 'older' sculpts would rez faster than new ones unless you already have the old ones in your viewer cache or something.

 

[Zalandria Zaius]

Even if a mesh takes a while to load you shouldn't have that big blob in it's place like you do with sculpties since we can make our own LOD's. That was what made me take a break from SL. I wanted so bad to use sculpties but take a step or two back and it all went to hell.

[Drongle McMahon]

I am seeing more and more cases of the low LODs of meshes showing up before the high LOD rezzes. I would prefer that they didn't do that and just waited to rez until the appropriate LOD was available. Still, at least we don't have to put up with spheres or tetraherdons.