Minimizing the size of Babylon file

[oschakravarthi]

Hi,

We are building our models in Maya and exporting them to Babylon for viewing them on web. The generated Babylon file is very big. Like 250 MB which is not suitable for web viewing because it takes a lot of time to load. 

 

Any recommendations to follow to get a small Babylon size without compromising much on the quality of the model?

[Guest]

Hello, you can obviously turn on gzip on server side (it will save A LOT!)

Also consider using binary babylon files: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Exporters/tree/master/Tools/ConvertToBinary

[MarianG]

And you can export it as  gltf format and apply draco Compression on it.

[oschakravarthi]

15 hours ago, MarianG said:

And you can export it as  gltf format and apply draco Compression on it.

 

19 hours ago, Deltakosh said:

Hello, you can obviously turn on gzip on server side (it will save A LOT!)

Also consider using binary babylon files: https://github.com/BabylonJS/Exporters/tree/master/Tools/ConvertToBinary

Thank you @Deltakosh and @MarianG.

 

I remember, once I noticed that when I loaded a gltf model, babylonjs was considering it as an atomic. I mean, when I access scene.meshes, it give only one mesh which contains the complete model. I  could not access individual elements. Am I correct?

[Guest]

Nope  gltf is like babylon.js, it will return the list of meshes