Mike53 - congratulations on your models! And thanks for sharing the process.
It is indeed true that while a door or window can be realatively small (few surfaces), the hinges, knobs, handles and keyholes often increase the size of the model many times over.
Dorin:
4) If You use it for a pretty regular home is not a problem the size but for a hotel it is
5) I've started to simplify my furniture; I don't have a hotel but i have a poor computer so I need also to reduce the size everywhere I can.
5) I've started to simplify my furniture; I don't have a hotel but i have a poor computer so I need also to reduce the size everywhere I can.
Thanks for your simplification guide. I for one certainly believe in the advantages of small models - for all sort of reasons. However, it is also worth noting that if you use one model many times over in a plan, SH3D will only save one instance of the model. So the file size of a hotel does not have to increase much with many handles.
As for simplification, just for reference, in addition to Dorins simplifications, the models can be stripped down even further by following Puuybarets guide in SF 261. A couple of months ago we needed some retro doorhandles. Thinking same as Dorin, make the models as small as possible - even if these examples may be a bit extreme, they illustrate how far down you can go. I throw them in your examples for comparison.
doorhandle_retro_03.zip - 1508 bytes
doorknob_round_02.zip - 1952 bytes
door_keyhole.zip - 1244 bytes
But as Ceciliabr rightly pointed out in thread 8292 for a nice rendering of a rounded shape, you certainly need more segments in the polygon.
