3DS Loading Speed

[mathijs]

I am new to tv3d, well I have used it for a while about half a year ago. I have got one little problem. The world in my app will exist out of about 100-1000 3ds models. When I load about 50 simple wall object into tv3d it takes about 3 secs to load. Thats too slow for what I want. Is there anything I can do to improve this speed?

Thanks,

Mathijs

[mathijs]

Have alittle other question too. Will using such a lot of meshes be slower than a same amount of verts in one mesh?

[Anti-Gremlin]

well, this picture you see hundreds of 3ds models being used..



that is why there are loading screens.. for loading such an amount.

[Slider]

jup, you could also convert the .3DS models to .X . They're faster with loading and rendering then .3DS.

[mathijs]

Thats a good idea, but i was wondering if there was something like light maps etc or some similar feature that is calculated when loading but not needed and can be turned off?

[Slider]

Well, give the object a material and you'll see a big change  

[Zaknafein]

I can answer that!
Don't load the 3DS mesh 1000 times from the source .3DS file!! Use the TVMesh.DuplicateMesh method to create your duplicate meshes. Using that command you don't have to do a "Set obj = Scene.CreateMeshBuilder" and neither a "Set obj = new TVMesh" and it's a whole lot faster... =)