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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: bizzybody on November 25, 2008, 12:40:58 am

Title: No glue as child in tS 7.6
Post by: bizzybody on November 25, 2008, 12:40:58 am

trueSpace 7.6 (dunno about previous 7.x versions) only has glue as sibling. Will that be a show stopper for using 7.6 for Freespace modeling?

The explanation for removing it is in the manual's Appendix.

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A.1 Avoid Complex Hierarchies
A.1.1 Replace Glue as Child links with Glue as Sibling links in older models
Glue as Child is functionally equivalent to Glue as Sibling, but it tends to create much deeper hierarchies. Deep hierarchies kill performance in all versions of trueSpace, so we removed Glue as Child from trueSpace altogether. If you have some models created in an older version of trueSpace that have a lot of Glue as Child links, you can improve performance significantly by ungluing them and converting them to Glue as Sibling links.

Title: Re: No glue as child in tS 7.6
Post by: blackhole on November 25, 2008, 02:06:07 am

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Will that be a show stopper for using 7.6 for Freespace modeling?

Hopefully. And then you can start using a decent 3D modeling program!

Title: Re: No glue as child in tS 7.6
Post by: pecenipicek on November 25, 2008, 02:36:57 am

i can swear to gods i saw and used glue as child specifically in 7.6.



[edit] that or i used trueview for it... probably the latter :p