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rendorx

01-02-2007, 07:47 AM

Hi there,

I have a problem with a small model that consists of 157 polygons, 4 clusters and 4 small textures. Astonishingly, this model takes up nearly 4 mb of disk space.
I don't know what causes this, does anyone have any pointers on what might help?

thanks and a happy new year of course!

-ren

TatsuFX

01-02-2007, 10:29 AM

Did you forget to freeze your modeling?? all those modeling modifiers in the stack can make an object heavier than it should be....

rendorx

01-02-2007, 07:15 PM

Did all that already, so that shouldn't be the problem.
Thanks for your reply though!

mattmos

01-02-2007, 07:23 PM

Misterdi posted a solution here or xsibase to a recent problem that sounded pretty similar - it went along the lines of it was a bug with the way the uvs are stored and you could sort out the problem by creating a new projection and transferring the uvs across, and deleting the old one. I think. Might be best to do a search :)

tuna

01-02-2007, 07:29 PM

Definitely check the UVs. I had a file once that was 9mb larger because of a corrupt UV on a sphere.

rendorx

01-03-2007, 07:04 AM

Thanks Guys!

That really seemed to be the problem, it went from 3mb to 46 kb
thanks again

-ren

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