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Thanks, my kind of model. As you say, it can be used for lots of things with a very low payload. Really like that. ..lampette as small as possible...
My love for compact has a practical background. Working with lots of looong documents - often emailed or downloaded on dodgy connections - I have really come to appreciate compact formats. To take an example, a while back, when abroad on a lousy gsm connection, I received documents for review, Word/PDF mostly. While the content only was 40 pages of text, the combined file-size was 20 times the size of the Bible. So my thought is, that if a deity can say all he or she has to say about everything in < 4000 KB, it seems rather unnecessary for me to spend over an hour of downloading and roaming costs equal to my fee, just to read, well, pretty insignificant, plain text. Now, I am not hysteric about these things, but it has become sort of a hobby to create everything digital as small and with as little redundant information as possible. Small is beautiful.Useful detail - such as what is needed for making the kind of renderings you create - is fine. Because the result is also a lot better. So when the purpose is a beautiful rendering, simplified models are (often) not good enough. Therefore if you were to use simplified models, you would probably also cheat the forum for some of your wonderful pictures.
But using SH3D for strictly practical purposes that level of aesthetics is not always needed. Some of the 3d warehouse models can be so large that the initial planning process takes forever. Sometimes even making rendering impossible. Trees and shrubbery being one major culprit. Which is why it can be a good idea to start out by using very simple models, and only put in the advanced ones (trees especially) at the very end. And/or keep the big models in a separate file and just paste them in for rendering. That way, SH3D will be super-fast even on slow computers while doing the basic layout.
But then, I have quite come to enjoy the challenge of creating the smallest possible replica of an object. To an extent where I sometimes waste more time making a small (inferior) model than it would have taken me to get a proper render
But heck, it is a hobby, isn't it?ok
