Growing meshes

[spiritplumber]

For soem reason every time I do something to a mesh it increases in size a lot, filesize wise. Does anyone know how to avoid this?

[klauss]

What do you do when you do stuff on a mesh?

[spiritplumber]

usually it's convert to .obj, modify the texture, and convert back to .bfxm

[klauss]

To modify the texture, I prefer:

convert to xmesh: mesher whatever.bfxm 0_0.xmesh

Edit with notepad: notepad 0_0.xmesh (or whatever)

convert to bfxm:
mesher 0_0.xmesh whatever.bfxm xbc
mesher 1_0.xmesh whatever.bfxm xba
mesher 2_0.xmesh whatever.bfxm xba
mesher 3_0.xmesh whatever.bfxm xba
mesher 4_0.xmesh whatever.bfxm xba
...

NOTE: do not perform 'xba' on LOD levels (ie: x_1, x_2, etc.), since that's done automatically when you do the xba in x_0)

[tiny paintings]

Dunno if this is what spirit meant but when you do additional UV-mapping etc. you need it in obj... Adding damage maps, etc. can only be done manually with xmesh can it not? Either way, converting bfxm->obj->bfxm shouldn't increase the file size.

[klauss]

Oh... If it's UV-mapping, then ok.

In that case, try converting from obj to xmesh:

mesher whatever.obj 0_0.xmesh oxc

...and take a look at it. That way, you can tell why is size being increased.

Even try

obj->xmesh->bfxm

If size does not increase when doing that, then it's what I suspected a while ago: the obj importer is broken (I had some trouble with it a while ago, but wasn't sure if it was mesher or the file itself).