Still Work in process, trying to simplify some procedures

[George Ioannidis]

which are the most significant (in order to eliminate or minimize post process in PS).

Ivy, trees, natural components (naturally looking rocks and boulders, grass, flowers).... These things are very "disk and memory hungry". Dwg which has these things becomes heavy and slow in response time. I found better to work them separately from the main model, using it just as background (xrefed into e.g. trees.dwg, which will contain only tree instances of all kinds - nXt trees, textured object trees, RPC etc.). Other drawing again for stones, for the rest of entourage and equipment. After completion of placing all things right these drawings are xrefed back to main model and rendered.

[Sampdoria]

Thats a lot of detailing! So you Xref the trees in order to decrease size of the file or render times?

 

I realized everytime I approach 100+ Mb, the dwg becomes tougher to manage.

[George Ioannidis]

No, speed or size don't decrease this way at all, unfortunately. The manipulation speed looks to be better. Size of textured trees (obj files) was known issue and increase file size quickly. Even simple stones made in Blender 3D with stone generator built-in plugin are quite heavy and need to be simplified significantly.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

That's what I generally do when there's the need of many environment elements, such as RPC, nXt trees, etc. All the xrefs files are attached after having completed the modeling of the architectural stuff.

[akinlolu olugboji]

When am through modelling, I open a new drawing and bring in the architectural model (one floor at a time right up to the roof) as X-ref. then I begin to work on the material assignment. When done with that then the site(green area, vehicular and pedestrian access, fence etc) come in too as X-ref. The only non X-ref entity added are RPC's (as they do now work when X-ref) and nxt plans (which I have not checked will work or not if X-ref)

[akinlolu olugboji]

And also should autocad crash, this way I just re-assemble losing little and at times no work. Should Nxt, now that is a different story.