- Blender DTS Exporter 0.97 Documentation Index
- Installing the Exporter
- Overview of the DTS File Format
- Setting Up DTS Shapes in Blender
- User Interface Overview
- Tutorials
- DTS Meshes
- Billboard Meshes
- Collision Meshes
- LosCollision Meshes - Line of Sight Collision
- Vertex Index Limit
- Geometry Types
- Polygon Limit
- Face Normals
- Vertex Normals
- Blender Mesh Modifiers
- Double Sided Meshes
- Notes on Skinned Meshes
- Notes on Shadows
- Transparency and Drawing Order
- Determining the number of triangles in a Blender mesh
- Strategies for dealing with large meshes
- DTS Materials
- DTS Animations
- LOD - Levels of Detail
- Blender Survival Guide
- Changes from earlier versions
- Notes on Coordinate systems
- Notes on Scale
- Quick Export Feature
- Troubleshooting
- Exporter Credits
Vertex Index Limit
Sun, 01/11/2009 - 17:03 — Joseph Greenawalt
Meshes within a DTS shape have a limit to the number of vertices that can be used. This limit is around 32767 vertices, which translates to around 10,900 triangles in a worst case scenario. If you have a mesh that exceeds the limit an error message will be written out to the export log file and the mesh will be truncated (triangles will be missing from the exported mesh).
Why the limit? Vertices are indexed inside DTS files using a signed 16 bit integer. Since Torque's code assumes that the indices are all positive numbers, that gives 15 bits to work with (3 verts per tri: (2^15) / 3 ~= 10922 tris).
See also
- Polygon Limit
- Strategies for dealing with large meshes
- Determining the number of triangles in a Blender mesh
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