Zoom to Planet Earth

[webster]

I think you´ll need BOT (Block Ordered Texture) which, shortly explained, will only load the needed part of the texture in the renderer

[robbo59au]

Webster has made the obvious suggestion.

As an alternative, you could do your 3D as a number of passes; one for the widest view, another for a closer pov, yet another closer in and so on, using the same camera move, and using progressively more detailed texture maps. Then comp them in 3D. A tad more complex to do, but more versatile.

Good luck.

[Stahlberg]

And if you don't want to composite you could do the same thing all in the 3d app, use a lower res texture on the whole earth, then map say half a continent or something with a part of the higher res texture on a piece of geometry that doesn't cast shadows and sits very close to the surface, blur the edges with a transparency map.

[arangel]

What´s the workflow for working with BOT?

Rangel

[webster]

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From the Help-Docs:

Using the BOT pre-render setup

The usage for this pre-render setup is straight-forward. A new and optimized scene file is generated and is ready for the renderer. See the following maya -optimizeRender -help message:


Usage: maya -optimizeRender [options] mayaFile optimizedMayaFile



-botRes 'int'
Minimum file texture resolution that will cause BOT files to be produced. For example, specifying "-botRes 256" means that all file textures bigger than 256x256 will be converted to BOT format. The default value is 0, meaning all file textures will be converted.

-botLoca 'name'
Directory in which BOT files reside (default is in the same directory as the original file).

-help
Prints this message.

-noBOT
Avoid BOT creations.

-noCleanup
Avoid cleaning up useless data.

-tessFreeze 'start frame' 'end frame' 'by frame'
Calculate NURBS tessellation that gives the best image quality based on the camera projection.

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I also never used it,
As far as I can read, you´ll have to code by the command shell your options and it will generate a new scene, where every texture, depending on your settings (given resolutions by "-botRes <int>") will be converted in an BOT-Format. This new generated scene should be rendered.

As said before, I never used it.

Maybe some experienced user in this area could tell us more :wip: :wavey:

[arangel]

I´ve used this scene optimizer before. Just to make sure, to scene becomes usesless for editing afterwards, right?
I did once and could never change the "freezed" teselation. Is there a way?

Rangel

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