Softimage 2012 Experiences
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maximus, max never starts rendering immediately, it always have to export scene to .mi file or whatever, and it always takes more or less seconds.
afaik this is main difference between max, the f***ing maya and softimage's mental ray integration. until 2012 si was starting rendering more or less rightaway.
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afaik this is main difference between max, the f***ing maya and softimage's mental ray integration. until 2012 si was starting rendering more or less rightaway.
slight moderator edit... - HB ;)
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origin wrote:maximus, max never starts rendering immediately, it always have to export scene to .mi file or whatever, and it always takes more or less seconds.
afaik this is main difference between max, the f***ing maya and softimage's mental ray integration. until 2012 si was starting rendering more or less rightaway.
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Yeah i know that, i didnt mean 3ds max starts render instantly, but sure it doesnt take 40 seconds of export scene to .mi for a bunch of cubes, and same thing goes for maya, what i'm starting to not understand here is if something can be done, because softimage 2011 was fine, i dont know whats happening in 2012 :/
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At first I tought that problem was in old scenes I was loading in 2012.... because render did not want to start, but now I see that I just did not wait enough
beta testers probably use Arnold or 3delight
beta testers probably use Arnold or 3delight
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lol...I was thinking the same thing.klipi wrote:...beta testers probably use Arnold or 3delight
I seriously cannot understand how something this glaring was not taken care of before AD sent out 2012. It is like releasing a video game that needs a "patch" in order to play it.
It is unfortunate really, that having a nice release like 2012 being marred by this sole issue, does not look good. Then again, I guess this proves how a vital part (MR) of a DCC platform gets consistently overlooked...
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Did you guys tried to export your object as a standin and rerender to see if it s coming really from XSI ?
That will eliminate XSI from the equation ( the translation is already done )
I was on maya theses last 6 months I didn't noticed any slow down. Quite the possite actually.
That will eliminate XSI from the equation ( the translation is already done )
I was on maya theses last 6 months I didn't noticed any slow down. Quite the possite actually.
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I guess there is no sense in trying that.
It should be enough to log the export time to MR before rendering as an issue.
The SI debelopers should care about the rest.
It should be enough to log the export time to MR before rendering as an issue.
The SI debelopers should care about the rest.
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Fair enough.
But sometimes people confuse what is causing the issue Xsi or Mr.
And then nobody move, if it s cleary define that the problem is comming from mr or XSI ( in this case XSI ) then you can have action
But sometimes people confuse what is causing the issue Xsi or Mr.
And then nobody move, if it s cleary define that the problem is comming from mr or XSI ( in this case XSI ) then you can have action
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We're investigating this rendering startup delay
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Thanks for letting us know that you guys are looking into it.luceric wrote:We're investigating this rendering startup delay
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Thanks for looking into the delay thing - Btw, I noticed that 3Delight free version has the same rendering delay in 2012 compared to 2011.
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i've got a lots of errors on .tiff files for some reason, anyone happened to see them? I get lots of this
' WARNING : IMG 0.2 warn 102023: TIFFReadDirectory: ...plants\grass\psdFiles\leaf.tif: unknown field with tag 37724 (0x935c) encountered.
this happens at render times, on script editor, it seems a .tiff file problem? i've always used those textures in the past tho!
btw i'm speaking about soft2012!
thanks
' WARNING : IMG 0.2 warn 102023: TIFFReadDirectory: ...plants\grass\psdFiles\leaf.tif: unknown field with tag 37724 (0x935c) encountered.
this happens at render times, on script editor, it seems a .tiff file problem? i've always used those textures in the past tho!
btw i'm speaking about soft2012!
thanks
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Yes, I saw that too. I haven't checked yet but are they compressed in any way (LZ, Zip etc)?
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Hm here is a weird thing..
I've noticed that this delay issue doesnt happen when using ICE instances, at first glance i thought that the problem would be the amount of geometry in the scene, since i've used 200 spheres and in that scene Soft hangs, but i was doing some ICE tests and i forgot i had Mental Ray set as engine since i was working with hardware render, and it just started rendering normal.
Here is the render, it is made with 150.000 point cloud grass strands + 5000 instanced objects (there are 4 models totals randomized)
It didnt hang after i hit render, and the whole picture took 20 minutes to render (i have a Q6600 cpu).
Again it appears to hang only if using geometry not involving ICE wich is weird
@actionart yeah sorry i double checked it and was the compression that caused trouble:) thanks!
I've noticed that this delay issue doesnt happen when using ICE instances, at first glance i thought that the problem would be the amount of geometry in the scene, since i've used 200 spheres and in that scene Soft hangs, but i was doing some ICE tests and i forgot i had Mental Ray set as engine since i was working with hardware render, and it just started rendering normal.
Here is the render, it is made with 150.000 point cloud grass strands + 5000 instanced objects (there are 4 models totals randomized)
It didnt hang after i hit render, and the whole picture took 20 minutes to render (i have a Q6600 cpu).
Again it appears to hang only if using geometry not involving ICE wich is weird
@actionart yeah sorry i double checked it and was the compression that caused trouble:) thanks!
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it doesn't hang if you use standins also
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