Posted by Joseph J. Strout on January 28, 2004 at 18:59:25:
At 12:56 AM -0800 1/27/04, Seth Willits wrote:>Is there any reason I shouldn't have all models in separate files?
>Since all I have is Nanosaur to go on, I'm wondering whether there's
>an advantage to having all of the models for a particular level or
>something inside of one file and loading it versus loading them
>separately.The only thing I can think of is that when multiple models are in one
big file, they can share parts. E.g., the same texture might be used
on two different models, and this not only saves disk space, it saves
texture RAM. You can't (easily) do that with separate files.Cheers,
- Joe--
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