The mesh exporter can theoretically increase land impact because it
translates each face into a separate object. If you upload it as-is with
out any prep work done to the resulting .obj file you can end up with a
high land impact. For example, a cube has 6 faces on it. Mesh exporter
would translate each face to a separate object. If uploaded with out any
modification to it, you would now have an object with a land impact of 6
because those objects weren't joined together in say... Blender (or your
3D editor of choice); If you unlinked the object you would find that you
can edit and move each side of the cube as if it were it's own prim. You
would have to import the object to your editor, apply a material to each
side of the cube (to preserve the fact that each side is a face. If you
simply just joined all the sides with no materials then you would end up
with a cube that has only 1 face) and then join all those sides together
into one object. Then when you export that to .dae and upload it, you
now have a cube that only takes 1 land impact, still has 6 faces, and is
all one object (that is, you can't edit each side and move them around
individually).
It's ultimately up to the person exporting mesh to do that work or not,
but with a little patience, the resulting export can be worked to have
the same land impact as the original.
There's plenty of reasons why someone would want to do this. For
example, I had an old attachment I created a while back that was roughly
30 prims. By converting it to mesh, I was able to edit and join lots of
pieces together (using up to 8 materials per object) into a single
object. The result? 3 prim count and an attachment that is worlds easier
to size to your avatar. It was also able to be rigged with some pretty
decent results.
On 8/15/2013 6:59 AM, R.Gunther wrote:
I heared that the mesh exporter would increase Land Impatc.
Still not sure why you want to export mesh, you can upload fresh one
from your hdd to. Or use oar / iar.
On 2013-08-15 13:45, John Lester wrote:
Hi folks,
I just discovered Singularity's new ability to export any prim-based
object as a mesh model (save as .obj or .dae). Wow...
Has anyone else been playing around with this feature? Is there
documentation somewhere I can check out? Are they planning to add
the ability to include texture mapping in the future?
I'm really blown away by this feature. Great work, Singularity
developers!
-Pathfinder
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