File size

[Mazens]

Hi guys how do you keep your file sizes low during modeling a car, i have a 53 MBs file and growing that takes a long time to save. Do you cut the car to pieces and merge all the pieces when you're going to render ? whats your trick ?

[tomsullivan]

well mines sitting at 110mb atm, and i just wait for it to save, a tv next to you is always a good thing, or some mags, they all help.

but if you want to have smallers file sizes look into xref, it basicly take the mesh info from other max file and use them in the file your working from

or if you have the same object repeated, look into proxis

sorry i could not be more help but those two things should help

[prophet1006]

Originally Posted by tomsullivan

a tv next to you is always a good thing, or some mags, they all help.

you're so right :roll:

[Mazens]

Originally Posted by tomsullivan

or if you have the same object repeated, look into proxis

Excuse my ignorance but what are proxis ?
Thanks

[scooter79rs]

Are you talking about a single save file?
Because my Countach latest save is only at 849kb and its a high poly car (approx 250k faces so far)
Where as my concept is 2.5mb at about 750k faces.
I have not changed any settings in Max.

[tomsullivan]

sorry Mazens, i didnt see your post

umm i have been looking in max and couldnt find it, i think i was thinking of something esle, if it comes to me i will post it

also wat your sence like, is it an object copied loads of times, or are they all different objects?

@scooter79rs, thats because, max doesnt really say the all the polies like if you use a mesh or turbo smooth it really only saves the raw polies before teh smoother modifier, if you convert the stack down so that you have 750k raw polies the file size would more be around the 40mb mark, i am still at about 2 millions raw polies with my camaro, nad thats why my file is 110mb

[Mazens]

Well the tyre is the only object that is repeated and I did collapse the tyres after applying a mesh smooth modifier, wrong ?