Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-19 Thread Morten Bartholdy
Thanks for the insight Ben. I just needed to know what might be possible for me here - I am happy and thankful you made Crate available so I can work on these shots at all :) Cheers Morten Den 18. marts 2015 kl. 19:53 skrev Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com: Exocortex Crate has a shared

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Mirko Jankovic
I'm also using crate version and scenes are not that interactive really. well I am scrubbing with alembic that are read over the network but still seems a bit more sluggish than it should be. will have to try reading abc file from local ssd just catch some time... On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:31

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Vincent Langer
I think this is a softimage thing. Not a alembic thing. Softimage is pretty slow with lots of objects. I bet if the cinema guy would export all objects as one it would perform very good in softimage. Cheers Am 18.03.2015 11:32 schrieb Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk: I am stuck on

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Vincent Ullmann
+1 that. 2015-03-18 11:40 GMT+01:00 Vincent Langer m...@vincentlanger.com: I think this is a softimage thing. Not a alembic thing. Softimage is pretty slow with lots of objects. I bet if the cinema guy would export all objects as one it would perform very good in softimage. Cheers Am

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
Maya can stream alembic directly to the GPU without ever creating objects in the scene, so that may be another thing you saw On Mar 18, 2015 9:15 AM, Morten Bartholdy x...@colorshopvfx.dk wrote: I suspected this might be a factor - sux :/ MB Den 18. marts 2015 kl. 12:51 skrev Vincent

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Morten Bartholdy
I suspected this might be a factor - sux :/ MB Den 18. marts 2015 kl. 12:51 skrev Vincent Ullmann vincent.ullm...@googlemail.com: +1 that. 2015-03-18 11:40 GMT+01:00 Vincent Langer m...@vincentlanger.com mailto:m...@vincentlanger.com : I think this is a softimage thing. Not a

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Morten Bartholdy
That sounds cool - ah well... MB Den 18. marts 2015 kl. 14:44 skrev Luc-Eric Rousseau luceri...@gmail.com: Maya can stream alembic directly to the GPU without ever creating objects in the scene, so that may be another thing you saw On Mar 18, 2015 9:15 AM, Morten Bartholdy

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Ben Houston
Exocortex Crate has a shared framework for loading Alembic data that we use across Maya, 3DS Max and Softimage -- so most of the loading code is shared, just the DCC-specific stuff isn't. Maya is just a faster DCC when there is a lot of objects in the scene - for +1000 objects, Maya is at least a

Re: Alembic performance?

2015-03-18 Thread Mirko Jankovic
All that speed in maya And such lousy controls/workflow ... On Mar 18, 2015 7:54 PM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: Exocortex Crate has a shared framework for loading Alembic data that we use across Maya, 3DS Max and Softimage -- so most of the loading code is shared, just the