current cables look great, do you mean how could you do then differently? Undseth posted a technique a while back in the old "How I did it" forum. Using a circle extruded along a curve. You could then convert them to polys and maybe they wouldnt be so heavy.
You must have quite a meaty machine to handle 145,000 polys!!
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