Memory Error

[Valdez]

Hello everyone! I have had a strange memory error with my SUM file being written. At first I got the memory error becasue I had to seperate my age into two different pages. I did that and it was working for a time but after I added one more object and exported I get this Memory Error while it writes the SUM file:

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@ Saving page Textures -1
@ Saving page BuiltIn -2
@ Saving page mainRoom 0
@ Saving page spacearea 1
Writing TINA_Testing.fni
Computing Checksums...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 169, in open_file
  File "<string>", line 106, in export_age
  File "E:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts\prp_MFSGen.
py", line 96, in update
    md5obj=md5.new(read.read())
MemoryError


What do you make of this? I hope it isn't anything too bad.

Thanks,
Valdez

[Tsar Hoikas]

You ran out of RAM?

Try closing some programs...

[Lontahv]

Tina testing is bloated. Try removing some verts on the flat walls.

EDIT: Here's a pic of the main structure...
http://lontahv.googlepages.com/TinaTesting1.jpg

I was getting a little laggy even when I was there.

Valdez> Maybe the "knife cut" tool in blender will be just what you're looking for. You can find how to use it in the Blender tutorials.

[GPNMilano]

Tina testing is bloated. Try removing some verts on the flat walls.

Yowzers. Thats a lot of faces. Doesn't PyPRP cut all those squares down into triangles upon export anyway? At least I seem to recall it doing that at one point.

[Lontahv]

Hmm, I think it makes them into tris... which means twice as many faces as listed in blender if you're using tris.

I dunno how easy it'd be for PyPRP to make flat surfaces single-face... but it might be odd to have such a controlling plugin.

Oh and yes, Uru's Spans can only store stuff in tris.

[Valdez]

Well, Decimation doesn't work at all. I know how to use the knife cut tool but what would I use it for? That is the part I don't get.

[Lontahv]

Hmm, well, when you cut your doors "cut" them with the knife rather then subdividing 5 or 6 times until each face is door-sized and then delete on of them. The trick is to _place_ your verts where you need them rather than subdividing.

Usually on flat faces there should be one face. So if I had a room with four walls I'd start with 4 faces, then use the knife too to cut openings. This makes the face-number SOO much smaller. I'd suggest you try this out on that main container for the testing area first.

If you need me to do it so you can see what it's supposed to look like, just ask.

[Valdez]

I see what you mean now, but wouldn't this mean I would have to redo my entire enclosure? *SkypeHint*

[Jojon]

Just box-select ( "B" key, drag to encompass vertices ) superflous vertices and merge them ( alt-M ) with one of the corners.