Size of the "CSG meshes"

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Hi evryone,

I have a question about the size of the meshes resulting of a CSG Transformation.

Here’s the mesh before transformation :

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Its size alone is 177ko (GTLF format)

I want to make a structure with 4 of these profiles. Here it is :

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The size of the scene saved in a .babylon file is now 13527 ko.

I want to precise that the empty scene (only axes, sky, ground…) is 743 ko and the size does not change if the edges are rendered or not.

So i assume that the size of the “CSG structure” is 12784 ko (13527 - 743).

Why is it so big because the mesh is only 177 ko ? Is there a way to reduce it ?

Thanks for your answers.

Boris

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Could you provide a PG example?
Otherwise it is hard to tell what is going on.
The size difference also my depend on format used. What is happening when you save the scene to GLB?

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I can’t save my scene to GLB.

here’s the error

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If I make the same structure with “L profiles” made with BABYLON.MeshBuilder.ExtrudePolygon function, the size is only 840 ko

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My conclusion is that the CSG Transformation with gltf files is very loud.

I’m not sure to be able to provide a PG example because i have a lot of classes. I will try anyway.

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Here’s the playground (sorry for the number of lines). The classes are at the top and the function at the bottom.

typeprofil = 1 → size of the babylon file = 102 ko
typeprofil = 2 → size of the babylon file = 12794 ko

if you want to change the value of typeprofil, go to the line 706

Hope it will help you to find an answer.

PS : I manage to export my scene to GLB and BABYLON formats with the playground. The error must be elsewhere…

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Anybody ???

Thanks in advance,

Boris

6

A shorter playground would be helpful :smiley:

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Here it is :slight_smile:

I think I cannot make it shorter…

8

It’s still a bit too complex :sweat_smile: but in general, it seems that .babylon files will be bigger than .glb files… I tried with the base playground scene:
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A default CSG example: ( Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com))
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And a more complex example: ( Advanced instanced buffer control | Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com))
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I would also add that there is actually almost no difference in size when you use gzip compression on your server.

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Ok, I made a new shorter PG with only one profile :

The size of the scene is now 3513 ko when exporting in . babylon format but my mesh is only 177 ko before the cut.

I don’t understand why the size is so big…