Hi Matt, wow that's a gorgeous plane illustration!
re:
> If it is a small piece, say a wheel on aircraft then yes I can export just the wheel and it will be
> very accurate. My problem is when I export say the hydraulic system - its made up of small
> pieces but spread along the full extent of the aircraft.
So what I was getting at there is not so much that you should export just the wheel, but rather that I could probably make the hidden line exporter do an initial pass that worked on objects individually with the whole canvas temporarily framed around just that object. That could then give objects better accuracy on an individual level and the limits of the canvas resolution being stretched across the full scene would only impact how objects interacted with other objects and not also gunk up a small object's own self occlusion.
It may be a fair chunk slower than the current exporter since it would be doing more work for each individual object but would it be accurate to say that even if the exporter was say 5-10 times slower than current it would save you time in the long run if it gave cleaner results on small objects within a larger overall scene?
- Michael
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