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doppelganger
04-22-2004, 01:37 AM
Wrap Deformer question
I have a medium res mesh with some triangles behind the ears, on top of the head, not many but enough to mess with Mental Ray when I render my displacments.
Because I have to use polys and subD isnt an option I converted to subD collapsed the hierchy to 1 then converted back to polys. I now have all quads but a very heavy mesh. Can I use my lowres poly mesh (with the few triangles) to drive my all quad highres mesh using wrap deformers? I dont want to get too into the process before I learn that there will be problems so I figured I would check in here. I have only seen it done before with a lowres poly object driving a subD object so I havent seen the issue of a few tris in the wrap deformer addressed.

Thanks

Scott
john_homer
04-22-2004, 01:52 AM
you wont have any problems with the tris..

you may have with memory though...

just try it.
.j
doppelganger
04-22-2004, 02:13 AM
Thanks for the reply : )

I am curious what kind of memory issues I may run into. You see am under a very tight deadline so I cant spend too much time with trial and error on an unexplored technique. I was planning on cutting my lowres mesh into parts and using these as the wraps.

If ther are any other reccomendations please let me know.

Thanks

Scott
john_homer
04-22-2004, 08:09 PM
Originally posted by doppelganger
I was planning on cutting my lowres mesh into parts and using these as the wraps.


that will only cause problems and use more RAM....

wraps use a lot of RAM thats all..

just make the wrap, get the max distance down as low as possible (that saves time and RAM) and have a look at the RAM usage, if its cool, your cool, if not... lts fined another solution...
.j
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