Scene rendering fast, suddenly "Loading Scene" takes ages
Posted: 06 Jan 2017, 19:55
Hey,
I got a scene, with massive ICE instances.
The huge amount (50 million) is a single cache file that I just stretched in the mixer since there is no simulation.
The parts with simulation are quite small, I can just play them in the viewport with 1 frame per second, so no problem actually.
When I start SI and load the scene, a frame needs like 7 minutes to render, inkl. "Loading Scene".
Suddenly after same frame, the "Loading Scene" time explodes and a frame needs 30 minutes until to 90 minutes. The rendering itself again only needs some minutes, but loading needs ages...
When I close the scene, start again, skip frames until the last frame, it will again render in 7 minutes - till one point when it starts again increasing the render time.
I realized, that the RAM is running full.
Starts with 15 GB till the limit of 60 GB.
Specs for that scene: Softimage 2015 SP2, SitoA, only ICE with Standins and one emitter grid, 2 different VDBs.
Anybody had a similar situation and solved that?
Thx alot,
sant0s
I got a scene, with massive ICE instances.
The huge amount (50 million) is a single cache file that I just stretched in the mixer since there is no simulation.
The parts with simulation are quite small, I can just play them in the viewport with 1 frame per second, so no problem actually.
When I start SI and load the scene, a frame needs like 7 minutes to render, inkl. "Loading Scene".
Suddenly after same frame, the "Loading Scene" time explodes and a frame needs 30 minutes until to 90 minutes. The rendering itself again only needs some minutes, but loading needs ages...
When I close the scene, start again, skip frames until the last frame, it will again render in 7 minutes - till one point when it starts again increasing the render time.
I realized, that the RAM is running full.
Starts with 15 GB till the limit of 60 GB.
Specs for that scene: Softimage 2015 SP2, SitoA, only ICE with Standins and one emitter grid, 2 different VDBs.
Anybody had a similar situation and solved that?
Thx alot,
sant0s