Hi,
hopefully this is a simple question.
I'm not asking about specifics of rotation,
translation, texture etc. but in general about
object modifiers.

My question is:
In general does something like:

#local A = object {
        Blah
        rotate 20 * x
        texture { ... }
}
#declare B = object {
        A
        translate 10 * z
}

consume more memory than the equivalent:

#declare B = object {
        Blah
        rotate 20 * x
        texture { ... }
        translate 10 * z
}

or does the one get flattened to the
other internally?

I'm asking because I have a gazillion
copies of this kind of thing and I'm
starting to run into swap.

-- 
Bill Hails

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I dont know the answer, but if you knock up a couple of scenes with multiple
instances of each case you should be able to compare the stats in the
messages window.


"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> hopefully this is a simple question.
> I'm not asking about specifics of rotation,
> translation, texture etc. but in general about
> object modifiers.
>
> My question is:
> In general does something like:
>
> #local A = object {
>         Blah
>         rotate 20 * x
>         texture { ... }
> }
> #declare B = object {
>         A
>         translate 10 * z
> }
>
> consume more memory than the equivalent:
>
> #declare B = object {
>         Blah
>         rotate 20 * x
>         texture { ... }
>         translate 10 * z
> }
>
> or does the one get flattened to the
> other internally?
>
> I'm asking because I have a gazillion
> copies of this kind of thing and I'm
> starting to run into swap.
>
> -- 
> Bill Hails

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Felbrigg wrote:

> I dont know the answer, but if you knock up a couple of scenes with
> multiple instances of each case you should be able to compare the stats in
> the messages window.
> 
> 
Yes, of course, I think I was probably not phrasing the question
quite right, I guess in general my question is "how do I conserve
memory?"
I have a scene with numerous (Scene contains 55767 frame level
objects; 3 infinite.) mesh2 objects and I was lead to understand
that a mesh2 object would be re-used.  In fact the scene has only
some 40-odd distinct mesh2 objects with multiple copies
but I see the memory usage rocketing as the scene is parsed, so Iwas 
wondering what I was doing wrong. The mesh2 objects all have a
texture_list section, I'm not trying to texture them individually,just 
translate them. I am using Point_At_Trans on them as well.

-- 
Bill Hails

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