My Black Seas Barracuda so far has 418 pieces and only uses 32 megs,
including the sPatch hull segments which add to around 16 I think. This
is surprising because the pieces are fairly detailed. What would be
interesting to know is, how much memory do the different POV primitives
and definitions take up? Just curious if anyone knows.

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David Fontaine wrote:
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> My Black Seas Barracuda so far has 418 pieces and only uses 32 megs,
> including the sPatch hull segments which add to around 16 I think. This
> is surprising because the pieces are fairly detailed. What would be
> interesting to know is, how much memory do the different POV primitives
> and definitions take up? Just curious if anyone knows.

The easy way is to define a simple scene, check to see how much memory is
used, add an object, and see the difference.

Note that this will give you only a rough idea; there are other structures
that POV generates in order to speed rendering, and these vary in size
according to the number and placement of the objects.

The texturing of objects also takes up space, and naturally a complicated
texture will use more space than a simple one.

Regards,
John
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