heavy mesh selection question

[visualboo]

oh well. I just spent a couple hundred hours selecting rotating waiting, selecting rotating waiting... etc. Taa Daa ;)

I'm still interested if anyone know's a way to do that.

[halo]

not sure what your trying to do, but do you know you can cut and paste modifiers?

[visualboo]

I have a single mesh... about a BILLION polys. Needed to make selection sets. Ultra slow vp speed. I had the selections made but they were on the edit mesh on top. That means that the optimize was being used. Can't use the optimize modifier. Need full res. Tried to get the selection from the edit mesh down the stack to the editable mesh. :D

Hope that made sence. It's late and I'm still at work.

[viperman]

what are you building with such a high poly count??

[ivan iliev]

visualboo!

There is a contradiction in this story,man.
The Optimise modifier change the topology of the mesh, on the top of the stack you have an objekt with less vertices. You have to collapse the stuck there is no way through the optimiser.

But you can try this as a joke, man:

With selection on the top(in Edit Mesh), disable Optimise(unactive), make sift-copy, collapse the copy and there is a new Editable Mesh with the same selection of sub-objekts as in the Edit Mesh! This only to have fun, man, we need it sometimes, by heavy Meshes:thumbsup:,can not solve your problem. :D

ivan

[megaflaizer]

maybe you should question why your model is so poly-dense.

or perhaps ur running on a 486 80 mhz machine with 32 mb ram...?

:buttrock:

i understand what ur sayin g - you want to collaps your stack but have the resulting object retain the vertex selection from the original stack.

try practicing it on a simple object such as a sphere [ps. odnt make it a billion polys]

i suspect that max may renumber the vertices on stack collapse. but i thik i remember doing this and having it retain the vert selection.

in the future, if you find that ur stack looks like yours:

edit mesh
optimize
editable mesh

youll find that the best way to actually do it is to make the first item inthe stack [editable mesh] lower poly. adding optimize and then wwanting to collapse indicates that the original mesh was more dense than it needed to be - make sense?

[ivan iliev]

Originally posted by megaflaizer


i suspect that max may renumber the vertices on stack collapse.



You are perfectly right, man, max woudnt do this job.
That's why, do selection sets at the lowest level boys!!!

ivan

[megaflaizer]

u know what, i re-read your question and i realized i got it wrong... i thought you wanted to collapse, when what you actually want to do is remove the optimize and transfer the selection from the edit mesh to the editable mesh in your stack.

sorry... i also re-read my reply and it was alittle condescending...:hmm:

btw, who thinks this is an air guitar??:airguitar looks like hes letting someone know hes thier daddy is if u know what i mean

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