Ralph Honi Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I'm just getting into mesh ... I made some parts in Sketchup ... not real complicated parts ... one with some cylinders, curved, and another with a some boxes modified with radius corners. I import fine ... says 2 or 3 prim equivalent when queried ... when I attach to my in-world created 25 prim model .. the sim object count raises by 356. Any ideas? Is Sketchup the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 When you link a mesh object to standard prims, the whole linkset is treated with the new accounting system that was deveoped for mesh. This system produces costs that are related to the actual resource cost of the object. Many standard prims are very profligate in resource consumption, and consequently have very high costs under the new system. The upshot of all that is that it is generally a very bad idea to link meshes with other types of prims, including sculpties. This is the case however the meshes are built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Honi Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 ok ... that explaines it ... thanks. Also .. If I add textures in the Sketchup program to surfaces ... each surface that has a texture comes out as an individual prim. Is that normal also? Or a function of sketchup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I believe that is a characteristic of Sketchup or it's exporter. For some reason it does not handle materials/textures the same way as other programs. This is a major disadvantage of Sketchup as it precludes use of the up-to-eight textures per mesh allowed in SL. You could try using Blender to just to import your dae files, join the objects and re-export. That would not require too much learning of the Blender UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Honi Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 Thanks for all the help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwakkelde Kwak Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I haven't tried all different prims and their mods like hollow yet, but if you link simple boxes to a mesh you will get very nice results....the boxes will count as approximately half a prim. (or exactly, I dunno) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Yes. Simple boxes are the exception, maybe simple cylinders too. As you start distorting them, the costs rapidly become more than a prim each. The greatest effect tends to be in the physics cost (unless they are very large) because you can't provide a simple shape. If you can set them to type none, that is better, but the download costs are bad too. Someone should draw up a table of which distortions can be tolearted without crossing the one prim barrier for each type of prim. I might have a go at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwakkelde Kwak Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 You can forget about the torus:) linked 16 of those at .5x.5x.5 to a 0.7 PE mesh and the object was ...drumroll... 1067 PE. This was without hollow or anything twisty (not that twisting should make a diff I think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rage Riptide Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 This exact same question is going to keep cropping up into the forseeable, distant future. May as well make a canned response to link to, even off-site if they won't sticky the important stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 :matte-motes-smile: Or make candidate meshies read a FAQ as well as doing the quiz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Honi Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 wow ... excuse us illiterates for taking up your precious time ... answering here is entirely voluntary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drongle McMahon Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 I don't think any criticism of the questioners was intended. It's a good question. Everyone is legitmately puzzled when they meet this one. This is one of the questions in the wiki mesh faq. Maybe a sticky here with a link to that would help. Although, the faq answer isn't quite as full clear as it might be. May I should try to edit it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Honi Posted November 1, 2011 Author Share Posted November 1, 2011 Sorry for my over reaction ... after a guy digs and digs for info ... it gets a little frustrating. If I cant find what I need, I use these rescources as a last resort. I simply took the comment the wrong way ... was late last eve ;-), Thanks again for all your help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rage Riptide Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Yes Ralph, not aimed at anybody for asking these questions, we just see the same ones over and over. I agree with Drongle about the FAQ in the mesh intro, but also... There are two stickies in the Mesh forum now, UserGroup and MeshBlog, both basically useless to most, if not all, mesh creators. A sticky to the mesh FAQ, or even the mesh wiki, is obviously useless too, otherwise it would be there already. Hey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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