Subject: # faces in spline font objects
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 08:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ed Totman <etotman@gort.ucsd.edu>

If you are creating flying logo videos, then you know that the number of
faces in the font objects the spline editor creates can quickly get out of
hand.  In one test I ran, Four eight letter words = over 40k faces.  You
can reduce the number of faces the spline editor creates by interactively
scaling each letter's axis up (shift s) to anything over 20x before you
use the "add points" option.  This will reduce face count by about 20-30%. 
If you scale the axis up over 20x you still get a 20-30% reduction only. 
To increase the number of faces generated, scale the axis down.

I just wish there was a way to scale all letter axes at once, so I don't 
have to go to each one individually.

Ed Totman
etotman@gort.ucsd.edu





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