Re: Does the number of objects matter?

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

You would probably want something more along the lines of one TriMesh 
for all the
brown tree trunks/branches and another for all the green foliage.


On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at 06:35  am, Keith Wiley wrote:

>
> Okay, I see.  So, if in Meshwork I create a tree, then copy and paste 
> it next to the original tree so I have two separate trees, with 
> totally unconnected vertices, I can save the entire thing not only as 
> a group (which doesn't do much) but as a single "object" even though 
> it is clearly physically two separate objects.
>
> And likewise, I could take individual trees after opening them into 
> the program and combine them into a single object.  Right?  I'll study 
> the trimesh code.  I guess what would be nice is to only have the 
> trimesh stored once and then specify that it is simply placed in the 
> world multiple times.  Is that on the right track?