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Welding vertices

sunayk

sunayk

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In Gmax there is an operation of welding co-located vertices to reduce the number of texture vertices (tverts) and therefore improve performance (if I got it right).

Is such a welding operation also possible in FSDS (3.5.1/ Xtomdl)?
I am using the "snap to scale" function, but not sure if it by itself functions as a welding and reduces vertices.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sunay
 
Qualified yes.

The snap to scale really snaps vertices to a non-visible grid, and joins (i.e. welds) those vertices that are snapped to the same grid point. This is similar to the weld operation in gmax.

a "join" operation - where you select two or more vetices, hit "J"oin, the vertices are then snapped to the CURRENTLY SELECTED VERTEX. is similar to the "target weld" operation.

However, where you "set" the weld range in gmax in the weld spinner, you go to the File->Project Properties in FSDS. In the upper right of the dialog selections, you can type in the "Scale factor for 'Snap to Scale' operations", right over the "crash detection" check box.

I have mine set to .001. The default is .1, and you can get a warped mesh if you do that.
 
Thank you Felix for the clarification.
Great! I guess I will continue "snapping to scale".
 
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