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# 1 17-04-2005 , 01:26 AM

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Hi Guys,

I'm currently working my way through the Spitfire Tutorial. The modelling is now complete and I noticed the file size was around 14MBs which seemed a bit large. I've been deleting history as I go, but when I ran the Optimize Scene the file was reduced to around 2.5MBs

What would it have deleted to reduce the file so much?

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# 2 17-04-2005 , 02:01 AM

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unused, shaders, nodes, etc.

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# 3 17-04-2005 , 03:58 AM

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Open the optimize scene options to see a checklist of everything it looked for.

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# 4 17-04-2005 , 06:02 AM

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Thanks Guys,

I just found is strange that there was so much fat in my Scene!

Is this the preferred way to clean up the scene and file size when modelling is complete?

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Paul

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