Clean-up the Scene: Difference between revisions

From Sins of a Solar Empire - Official Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
VisualWikitext
(Created page with " 1) Freeze the model. 2) Freeze the mesh’s transform values. This is done so that the mesh does not end up being offset from all the meshpoints in-game. To do this, under t...")
 
(→‎Cleaning up unused materials: Fixed weird spam of non-breaking space that caused note to go off page.)
 
(3 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:


1) Freeze the model.
[[XSI_Freeze|Freeze]] the model.


2) Freeze the mesh’s transform values. This is done so that the mesh does not end up being offset from all the meshpoints in-game. To do this, under the “Transform” Panel, go Transform > Freeze All Transforms. This should change all the Scalingvalues to 1 and all the Rotation and Translation values to 0, if they weren’t already at those values.
 


3) Cleaning up unused materials:<br/> a) Press 8 to open up the Explorer.<br/> b) Press M to switch to Materials view.<br/> c) Select and delete (using the Delete key) any materials that you do not need. A “<Not used>” indicator refers to unwanted materials but if you are not sure, select the material and Press 7 to call up the Render Tree to help you decide whether it should &nbsp;be &nbsp;deleted &nbsp;or &nbsp;not, &nbsp;and &nbsp;whether &nbsp;you &nbsp;need &nbsp;to &nbsp;switch materials around (to apply a different material to the mesh, just &nbsp;drag &nbsp;that &nbsp;material &nbsp;from &nbsp;Explorer, &nbsp;onto &nbsp;the &nbsp;mesh &nbsp;in &nbsp;the viewport).
'''Freeze the mesh’s transform values'''. This is done so that the mesh does not end up being offset from all the meshpoints in-game. To do this, under the “Transform” Panel, go Transform > Freeze All Transforms. This should change all the Scaling values to 1 and all the Rotation and Translation values to 0, if they weren’t already at those values.


Note: When you are done, there shouldn’t be any unused materials, as these are going to be exported into the *.mesh file, needlessly bloating its file size.
&nbsp;


4) Cleaning-up unused textures and texture clips:<br/> a) Press 3 to switch to the Render Tool Bar<br/> b) under the “Get” section, go Clip > Delete Unused Image Sources and Clips.<br/> c) In the Explorer, Press O to switch to Sources view. Expand the Sources > Images folder and delete any unwanted texture references.
= Cleaning up unused materials =
 
#Press 8 to open up the Explorer.
#Press M to switch to Materials view.
#Select and delete (using the Delete key) any materials that you do not need. A “<Not used>” indicator refers to unwanted materials but if you are not sure,select the material and Press 7 to call up the Render Tree to help you decide whether it should be deleted or not, and whether you need to switch materials around (to apply a different material to the mesh, just drag that material from Explorer, onto the mesh in the viewport).
 
''Note: When you are done, there shouldn’t be any unused materials, as these are going to be exported into the *.mesh file, needlessly bloating its file size.''
 
= Cleaning-up unused textures and texture clips =
 
#Press 3 to switch to the Render Tool Bar  
#under the “Get” section, go Clip > Delete Unused Image Sources and Clips.  
#In the Explorer, Press O to switch to Sources view. Expand the Sources > Images folder and delete any unwanted texture references.  
#Expand the Clips&nbsp;>Images folder and delete any unused image clips. Image clips are just texture instances.
 
''Note:&nbsp;Any&nbsp;“noIcon_pic” clips/images are integrated&nbsp;into&nbsp;XSI and cannot actually be deleted.''
 
&nbsp;
 
= Cleaning-up&nbsp;the Scene_Root =
 
Go&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Scene_Root in&nbsp;Explorer and delete any extraneous objects from your scene. Nothing under the Scene_Root except:
 
*the camera (XSI requires that you have at least one camera object)
*the model’s mesh
*the rootpoint null
*and all the meshpoints nulls under the rootpoint
 
[[Category:Modeling]]

Latest revision as of 00:58, 12 September 2023

Freeze the model.

 

Freeze the mesh’s transform values. This is done so that the mesh does not end up being offset from all the meshpoints in-game. To do this, under the “Transform” Panel, go Transform > Freeze All Transforms. This should change all the Scaling values to 1 and all the Rotation and Translation values to 0, if they weren’t already at those values.

 

Cleaning up unused materials

  1. Press 8 to open up the Explorer.
  2. Press M to switch to Materials view.
  3. Select and delete (using the Delete key) any materials that you do not need. A “<Not used>” indicator refers to unwanted materials but if you are not sure,select the material and Press 7 to call up the Render Tree to help you decide whether it should be deleted or not, and whether you need to switch materials around (to apply a different material to the mesh, just drag that material from Explorer, onto the mesh in the viewport).

Note: When you are done, there shouldn’t be any unused materials, as these are going to be exported into the *.mesh file, needlessly bloating its file size.

Cleaning-up unused textures and texture clips

  1. Press 3 to switch to the Render Tool Bar
  2. under the “Get” section, go Clip > Delete Unused Image Sources and Clips.
  3. In the Explorer, Press O to switch to Sources view. Expand the Sources > Images folder and delete any unwanted texture references.
  4. Expand the Clips >Images folder and delete any unused image clips. Image clips are just texture instances.

Note: Any “noIcon_pic” clips/images are integrated into XSI and cannot actually be deleted.

 

Cleaning-up the Scene_Root

Go to the Scene_Root in Explorer and delete any extraneous objects from your scene. Nothing under the Scene_Root except:

  • the camera (XSI requires that you have at least one camera object)
  • the model’s mesh
  • the rootpoint null
  • and all the meshpoints nulls under the rootpoint
Retrieved from "https://wiki.sinsofasolarempire.com/index.php?title=Clean-up_the_Scene&oldid=7856"