First mesh, and I can't use it...

[Rowan Lewis]

I installed blender today, and spend some time learning how to use it, then I spent some time creating Terrain, but alas, it wasn't to be:

Could not draw triangles, too many primitives(289952), maxium is 65535.

Even though the level is supposed to be on the scale of GTA:SA, I can't load my precious map...

How could I simplify it? And what file format is best for exporting terrains?

[jam]

How could I simplify it?

Vizup Optimizer seem's to be the favorite around here. Version 1.8 was the last freeware version and vermeer was hosting it, but at the moment his site seems to be down.

ok, you can get it here

[Rowan Lewis]

Hmm, thanks for pointing that out, I'd even use it if it didn't crash Wine... there must be some Linux based tool somewhere :/

[finger007]

There is -- Blender

Just apply a "decimator" to your terrain to reduce polygons. It's to be found in the modifiers now.

Hope that helps

[needforhint]

irrlicht uses 16 bits indicies for vertexes, you can change it to 32 bit and have from int (65 000) a longint (65 000^2), that ammount should do . recompile the irrlicht or wait for the release of irrlicht finally done with this

[Rowan Lewis]

Thanks for pointing that tool out in Blender, it worked perfectly