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Re: Excessive(?) use of Sub-parts (Was: New Part - 30200 Windscreen...)
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:44:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Tore Eriksson writes:
> I am just a little concerned about the rapidly increasing number of files we produce. It gets harder to overview.
Oh, you're not going to be happy with the next update...
> I know nothing about rendering program's cacheing and what effect usage of
> sub-files have.
With a good caching strategy, subfiles should make a net improvement in
performance.
> There has to be a balance, sub-parts can surely be very handy many times.
> For example, I think Steve's subpart s/4186a.dat is very good as it makes the
> 4186 Baseplate part file at least 40 times smaller. But a primitive with, say
> 8 x 8 studs would have been more gereric and could decrease the size of many
> more part files.
For that part (the original soccer field baseplate), a small
grid of studs was not very useful. I did try it.
> The differences may be of academic importance*, but me I'm interested in not
> having too many files that aren't real part files.
There are specific reasons for having multi-part files. Sometimes it's a
requirement, sometimes it's a judgement call.
> And if one day we'll have a live update system of part files, I think all
> these sub-part files could likely mess things up.
It's possible, but I don't think it will be a problem. A live system would
most likely not care about the 'file type', it would just administer files.
> *) Academic importance - do you have that idiom? I'm talking about things
> that make no noticable difference, but academic
> people can spend years discussing and adding points of view...
Yep, we've got that one. "It's academic".
Steve
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