Reply To: Save file size got huge, is this normal?

[Mark Manno]

After some tinkering, I was able to get the file size back to 480mb. It seems to jump up from the 100’s when I begin to inflate or do stuff with the cloth filter I think. I also feel like there is something going on with the subdivisions somewhere. It has gotten better but it can still putter out even just moving the camera. 

I was finding those in Edit mode. I tried your method in object mode. I am at 29,760 vert/edges, 7,440 faces, 14,880 triangles. Thanks for telling me how to Shift+H and Alt+H, I didn’t know that one.

I am going to tinker and remover to multires mod and see what it does. I am rather sad because I feel like my computer should be able to handle this. Would you mind maybe checking out my build and seeing if there is an upgrade you recommend for helping out with this issue? I am guessing my computer could be the problem as well?

Also, I hope I am not being a huge pain lol but I have one more question atm. I have sculpted my scarf, but when I leave sculpt mode for edit or object the sculpting disappears. It goes back to being the half-tube structure if that makes sense. Any ideas what I am missing here?

Thanks so much for the help so far.

Edit: So I have gone back to the scarf video to try this again. I deleted the Multires and the vert, edges.. etc all went down in value.  I did this in object mode. I notice though that the Multires subdivide from Object mode isn’t carrying over to Edit mode, but it does carry to Sculpt mode. So after deleting Multires and then adding again I have:

Edit – verts 2028/edge 3887/faces 1860/triangles 3720

Obj – verts 7775/edge 15214/faces 7440/triangles 14880

Sculpt – verts/edge 29760/ faces 7440/ triangles 14880

Now here is the weird part… my old save file at 480mb has lower counts in obj mode, same in edit and sculpt. My new file with the bigger counts is only 2mb now..  The main difference is I haven’t done any sculpting in the new save file.

I will check-in once I have scultped and let you know how the new save file functions. This is all so interesting.