[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Sorry – No – Cannot help.
Per Sverre

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Thanks Brian – However, I do not find the “General/Splitting” for “Materials” in the OBJ import dialog – that you mention… All I see is “Main, Auto-Bitmaps, Paths, Surfaces, Ena-1, Ena-2” (I’m on R15).

But I managed to reduce to ONE bitmap/ONE UV-map through after successful import of the THREE textures: “Bake Object”. Still a problem though:

* Due to erase of parts of original mesh model (surroundings) lots of the new texture is unused. And I have numerous loose UV-mesh islands with correct bitmap underneath. –> Is it possible to compact this by moving the mesh islands – AND its corresponding bitmap element – SIMULTANEOUSLY? I.e. drag the pieces together – Then remove un-used portion of the bitmap (“cut” in Photoshop to reduce number of pixels hor/vert).

* In a different model the UV-mesh has flaws after Bake Object. Now overlapping pieces of the UV-mesh results in (Body Paint) painting in ONE place – affects the texture in OTHER places…

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Thanks! Ended up at Ranch Computing (Paris) Excellent service – and fast! As always a little hazzle getting started, but I’got their procedures in the fingers now.

Have noted Pixel Plow.

I have already found that saving with “Assets” is the way to go if problems…

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

WORKS! – Simple as that! Thank you very much, Brian!

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Thanks for your tip – which also got from Adam. Works fine!

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

OK – I think I understand. However, “a shadow pass” is slightly beyond me. Your link, though, is very interesting. Joren’s “thepixellab.net” is one of my favorite C4D sites. Interesting place. I justed visited, downloaded, watched the tut – and tested the plugin.

Amazing – It works (in R14 Studio)! So this saved my butt. Thank you very much for your time, Adam!

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Hi Adam – Sorry for being unclear.

The reason for the plane being there is solely for the purpose to get a shadow – cast by the object. I thought I could “remove it” (and not the shadow) by the Composition Tag.

The “end product” should be a PNG w/alpha holding the masked object and its masked shadow – The PNG is to be put on web-page. The shadow helps mimmic an impression of depth on that page – Keeping the page’s gradient backdrop.

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Adam

Thanks for the input! – Many Objects, but not in the thousands…

I could try to reduce numbers, but it is possibly easier to just do a “simplified” simulation (Cubes, Floor) of the time-critical Objects.

Wondering: When joining Objects extensively the textures for these single Objects could be numbered between 50-100. + Other (non-textured-) materials. Is there a limit?

BTW: Do you think turning OFF Layers would help?

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

Thanks Darby.

I’ll certainly try Layers.

> You might also adjust the level of detail down.

How do I do that? Where? What kind of details?

No Clones used.

PerS

[Per Sverre wold-hansen]

I tried now, but couldn’t make the exclude work. For me no light (-effect) would show when inside/centered in the “light-dome”-object when using the “Exclude” in the light Tab.

However – What I did was to put a Compositing Tag on the light and use the Exclude for the light-dome on THAT.

Just to let others know / clearify.

PerS