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MrPhil
05-15-2003, 02:36 PM
Hi,
I posted this on highend as well, so sorry if you check those boards out as well

i'm just having an issue with file sizes in maya4.5

my latest scene size is 100mb

seems a bit large i think and i was wondering if there is anything i can do to sort it all out

I've tried optimising my scene but that does really help at all

i'll list a few things in my scene:
lo poly objects (head, torso, arms and legs)
hi poly version of lo poly
blends for the head
some blends for the body and legs
and my rig
if there's not enough info there i'll post more

thanks!!

Phil
CGmonkey
05-15-2003, 03:18 PM
What the hell.. 100 MB ?! :eek:

That's alot..

I don't know what's causing it but I sure would like to know :)
arangel
05-16-2003, 01:49 AM
I think you can try 2 things:
Import the scene into a new file or save it as an ASCII file (.ma) and take a look in a text editor to see if you can spot something weird.

Alexandre Rangel
alexx
05-16-2003, 08:45 AM
depends on how your high poly object looks.. some 100.000 polies that have no more history (not smoothed from a low poly object) can very easily result in a scene that huge..
is it an .ma or .mb file?

if .ma you can save as .mb to save disk space..

cheers

alexx
MrPhil
05-16-2003, 08:56 AM
It's an mb file

I'll try a couple of things out, i hope i can get the file sizes down
i'll post up my results

thanks for the replies
MrPhil
05-16-2003, 02:57 PM
i think i fixed it
i just selected everything in the scene and i exported it with all the default options
the file size is just 7mb now hehe
it's a lot faster to work with too!

i wonder what was wrong tho

thanks for everyones help
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