glb meshes can be nowhere?

Erich_L

After @Calinou mentioned that .glb as binary files are faster to load I've been switching to them from .obj files. I've noticed after you throw the .glb in godot you can open it in a new scene A and copy the meshes into scene B. Then not only can you go ahead and delete scene A, but you can also delete the .glb file in your res://.

If you delete an obj the editor warns you if it's still being used. So... what's going on here? I can just "sneak" these .glb objects into my game and end up with a much smaller game than ever possible with .obj files?

This perplexes me... but maybe this is the best way to do it?

TwistedTwigleg

My guess is that a copy of the GLB file exists in the .import folder in the root of the Godot project, and so it loads it from there. It is also possible that it writes the data of the .GLB file directly into the .tscn, though I think unless you instance the mesh and then select make local, it just reads it from the file.

Erich_L

A guy on FB said: the meshes can end up embedded in the scenes i think that's if you make them local watch out as the default is tscn which is human readable, and meshes in human > readable form can take up a lot of space it's best to keep the orginals usually

I’ll need to check but this could suggest the files I thought I could sneakily delete will result in larger tscn files.