I design products; and when wanting to display them interactively; I don’t want cartoon versions used just because they load faster. (Low-Poly, visible facets, etc.)
With that in mind, I have looked at ways of making the data optimized to meet somewhere in the middle; perhaps a little more toward the quality side using Mesh export settings for each part, etc.
It seems to me that there could be multiple perhaps even simple solutions to enhance the scene loading on the web experience in regards to 3D scenes.
1) Could there be a short movie auto created of the scene in a turntable mode that plays while the scene is loading? Perhaps an “option” for large scenes that take longer to load. This allows the viewer to anticipate “what” they are waiting for; and build up anticipation of interacting with it.
2) Could you implement a way to load a minimal “Vertex Group” as the base starting point; and if more data is needed for let’s say an animation; another Vertex Group is loaded. (Per part; but perhaps also load more parts on demand.) What I mean is that many parts I create have many verts, faces that aren’t seen unless another parts moves away; then that missing data becomes problematic if I tried to strip it away to make it load faster, etc. (I realize Vertex Groups likely would not work exactly as described; but the idea being a multiple tiered structure to 3D meshes being loaded at will.) Shape Keys might be more suitable; but I think they have to have the same number of verts to work.
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