Let's appreciate/discuss today's new releases - more ongoinger thread

tsroemi

barbult said:

tsroemi said:

I just bought the heron, file size is incredibly small. Something like 50 MB as zip. Otter was even smaller. Has AM found the magic formula the elders have been searching for eons - to deliver amazing detail with almost no polygons? Can't wait to render the beasties!

It is usually texture files that inflate the zip size, rather than the geometry (polygons).

Not always though. I'vd been working through my libraries, downsizing where I can for lack of space, and while the textures are at fault around 70% of the time, the rest are the models themselves, and this is much more grievous than large textures. Because apart from Decimator which is hit or miss, and deleting unneeded morphs, I don't know anything to make the actual meshes take up less file space. In any case, props to all poly- and pixel - saving artists!