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Triangle Stripping

by JohnT · in Artist Corner · 01/05/2007 (6:31 am) · 8 replies

Trying to test the new triangle-stripping feature in 0.93 operational (THANK YOU Joseph!).

I have Blender 2.42a installed clean using Python 2.4.4 and an Environment variable set to point to Python which Blender has recognized when it starts. Also I've installed VTK - 5.0.2 on my machine but when I enable Triangle Stripping, my model is still not generated using strips.

Is there something else required to get the exporter to connect to VTK that I'm missing?
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Torque Owner Redacted
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01/05/2007 (8:09 am)
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Torque 3D Owner JohnT
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01/05/2007 (8:39 am)
Thanks! That appears to have done it.

One thing that I'm noticing, it does not appear to matter if I select the enable button or not in the exporter for stripping. If I set it to smooth, the model looks like it uses stripping wether I enable stripping or not in the General tab of the exporter.

Torque Owner Redacted
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01/05/2007 (9:10 am)
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Torque 3D Owner JohnT
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01/05/2007 (9:21 am)
Hmm, maybe its not working after all. If I turn smoothing on for anything in my model, the entire object appears one color (magenta) in ShowTool Stripping mode. If I turn smooting off, I get every triangle a different color.

Torque Owner Redacted
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01/05/2007 (9:30 am)
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Torque Owner Redacted
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01/05/2007 (9:44 am)
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Torque 3D Owner JohnT
#7
01/05/2007 (9:53 am)
The log showed that the stripper could not be found when set to VTK. I switched back to QAD and it does appear to be working correctly now.

Is there a reason to use VTK? I was under the impression that it was necessary to make the stripping work.

Thanks for all you help!

Torque Owner Redacted
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01/05/2007 (10:07 am)
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