Hey all,
Quick question to those who like working with lots of subtools.
Is there a maximum? I am doing feathers, and making 1 subtool out of each of the wing feathers. So I have 60 feather subtools for each wing. I started out with each feather at 2million polys, but I realized that my ztool was hitting 2 gigs So I went back and lowered my subdiv levels to 4 so that each feather was 2k each. When I saved that out I found that it was still at 2 gigs. Even bringing them to only their lowest level subdivision, still left the file size the same. Though my 32 bit computer was able to handle it, I wasn’t able to reload the tool. On a 64 bit machine I was able to load it.
So I have been merging the feathers into 3 groups, which brings it back down to a more manageable 300 megs. Any ideas though, why it stays so heavy even when I delete out the higher subdivisions?