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This guide to keeping your file size small starts with a look at your choice of 3d models. http://www.scififunk.com/2012/02/17/how-to-build-a-big-set- … more »

This guide to keeping your file size small starts with a look at your choice of 3d models. http://www.scififunk.com/2012/02/17/how-to-build-a-big-set-3d-animation-part-3-reducing-3d-model-size/

I like to buy 3d buildings from stonemason as he keeps the file size quite small anyway, plus of course they look good. However even these can be reduced quite dramatically.

In the example shown I reduced "faded industry" from approx 1600k to approx 500k a whopping 66 percent saving!

My basic plan is to rip out stuff that you dont need. To do this you "smooth objects" in Carrara, go into the modeller and start physically deleting objects.

To make the actual space saving you need to select "remove unused objects", and shaders and consolidate duplicate shaders.

Of course some scene files come neatly packaged so that you can save off individual buildings.

After creating all these mini scenes of indiviual buildings, you can merge the scenes (import them in Carrara) to create your composite scene.

Steve
3d model file size reduction
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