Alain wrote:
> You can create shingles with as few as 4 polys: a square for the top and 
> front and 2 triangles for the edges, or using a mesh of 6 triangles. 
> It's possible as you never see the under side. In  POV-Ray, a mesh is 
> only referenced, so it only takes a minimal amount of memory to have 
> even 1000000 instances.

Ahem, I know all that. I'm using Autodesk's Maya 8 for everything, I 
just want to create a texture for the roofs made up of a couple dozen 
polys, instead of thousands. And Maya is such a PITA that I don't want 
to clutter the scene with hundreds of instances of a small mesh. Thus, I 
want to render a texture.
Think of it as a 3D-Game-Engine-Object, you don't want to place 
thousands of small objects into a game just for a roof.

Regards,
Tim

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