Hello All,

I have a 3DS file that need to be compressed, uploaded to a render farm, and then uncompressed before being rendered. The file has not become to large and will not compress/uncompress successfully. The file has over 4,000 animated vehicles and a 4 mile highway segment. I am wondering if I break the large file up into smaller files and use the XRef Object feature to reference the smaller files into a master file, if this will allow the files to compress and uncompress successfully while uploading to the render farm?

Additionally, I have a lot of trucks with higher poly counts; is there a method that would allow me to reference in one truck model/file into the a master file and have numerous individual animations of that truck. It seems like this could help keep my files size much smaller.

Thank you for any assistance that you may be able to provide.

Mike