Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news
From: "Peter Dollochan" <Peter.Dollochan@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: Polygon reduction
Date: 22 Oct 1998 13:19:44 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <01bdfdbd$b30c0e80$016f6f6f@fffaaasssttt>
References: <362F09B2.4A1E80E7@bristol.ac.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: host5-99-59-8.btinternet.com
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161

I have a sneaking suspicion that the gaps are due to inverted normals
load it up in RsdAnim and have a look I think it allows you to selectively
change them.
As to the massive file size and number of polys Ummm... make a car with
less :-) sorry not very helpful .....

Pete.


Tom <tm7130@bristol.ac.uk> wrote in article
<362F09B2.4A1E80E7@bristol.ac.uk>...
> Ok, first off thanks go out to Jake Turner for putting me onto Rhino3d,
> what a spankingly good package!
> 
> Now here's my problem, I spent most of afternoon, evening and night
> playing about with Rhino3d and I got a fairly nice car body shell using
> spline lofting but unfortunately, the output dxf file was 1Mb (ouch!)
> even with as much polygon reduction as I could manage. I converted the
> dxf file to an rsd reducing the polygon count by as much as I could
> again but still when it came to tmd conversion, the result file was
> 170Kb. Now I don't really know anything about 3d programming on the Net
> Yaroze (I've only had it a few weeks) so I loaded the car model into
> that 3d tutorial ship thingy (the one with red, green and blue lighting)
> but a lot of the polys on the car were so small the playstation decided
> they weren't worth rendering so I ended up with gaps all over my model
> (although it still ran at 50fps, impressive). HELP!
> 
> Cheers,
>                 Tom.
> 
>