Re: hiccupping for new objects/textures

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

It could be the calls to the system to change the current transform
which were slowing you down. Yes that will be slower, but if you make
them all in a common coordinate system and no other global settings 
change
then I doubt you would see a factor of between 2 and 8 then. Suppose 
you lose
5 percent in speed, wouldn't it be worth it to save a hiccup?

Roger.


On Friday, July 23, 2004, at 05:13  pm, Keith Wiley wrote:

> No, we (the group) settled this a few weeks ago.  Someone (or multiple
> someones) told me that the number of unique trimeshes that are 
> submitted
> definitely matters.  I subsequently verified that this is definitely 
> true.
> Take a given scene with a number of redundant objects (with varying
> translation, scale, rotation, whatever) and render it as a set of
> individual objects.  Then do the same but first union all the objects 
> into
> a single huge trimesh.  The second method renders much faster, between 
> 2
> and 8 times faster in my experience.