Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-04 Thread Eric Turman
Actually, it has been my experience that while Maya can definitely handle a larger number of individual objects, it starts to chug much earlier than Softimage with a lot of polygons Maya can handle more objects and more polys (in terms of sheer count > displayed at a time) > -- -=T=-

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-04 Thread Jason S
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Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-04 Thread Jason S
image-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jon Hunt Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 1:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Scene crash on startup -

RE: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-04 Thread Matt Lind
standins are of benefit at render time. Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jon Hunt Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 1:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice Thank you

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-03 Thread peter_b
ll amount because of Arnold. But there’s still a lot to be said for being able to tweak in comp – and avoiding 3D re-renders. ... From: Jon Hunt Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 1:35 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice Hi Peter, ha ha I&

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-03 Thread Jon Hunt
ent:* Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:34 AM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice > > Thank you both Peter and Matt for your lengthy replies. > I've found your replies informative and interesting. > I am trying best

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-03 Thread peter_b
automated step when sending off the scene to render. (saving it as a separate render only version – that only serves that purpose: getting your renders out.) From: Jon Hunt Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:34 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Scene crash on startup - any

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-03 Thread Jon Hunt
Thank you both Peter and Matt for your lengthy replies. I've found your replies informative and interesting. I am trying best possible to work to best practices and feel a little reassured! I am not doing much else other than laying out the models in the scene. I do have some geo in there (landscap

RE: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Matt Lind
A scene size of 53 MB containing mostly referenced models indicates there is still a lot of data, such as animation (FCurves) or data applied on top of the referenced models in model deltas, still in the scene. the first thing to try is rolling back your scene to a previous version (including re

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread peter_b
scene + each model + drawing the viewport + graphics cards can work together to cause crashes. ... From: Jon Hunt Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 7:20 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice Hi Alok, Great, I shall get using it. Looks to be a

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Jon Hunt
Hi Alok, Great, I shall get using it. Looks to be a very useful tool. So many great tools shared in this community that I have used recently on my film and great people. Fingers crossed these exist in the new communities I shall be meeting from September onwards Related back to the original is

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
you can download the scntoc manager that I wrote. It is available as a stand alone application as well as a soft addon. you can get it from rray.de otherwise yes you need to set the resolution to 0 manually. Sent from my iPhone > On 02-Aug-2014, at 8:23 pm, Jon Hunt wrote: > > Thanks for the

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Jon Hunt
Thanks for the quick replies guys. Alok, I havent edited .scntoc files before. Having a look, would I alter the active resolution of each model to "0" the resave over the .scntoc file? Stephen, I have tried merging scenes and "skip loading of floating objects" option on and both together. Its doe

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Stephen Blair
Enable "Skip the loading of floating objects" in the scene debugging preferences. Or try merging the scene into a new scene. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Jon Hunt wrote: > Hi List, > Asked a thousand times before I'm sure. I have researched and having no > Joy and could really do with some

Re: Scene crash on startup - any advice

2014-08-02 Thread Alok Gandhi
try offloading all the ref models before loading the scene by editing the .scntoc file. Sent from my iPhone > On 02-Aug-2014, at 7:51 pm, Jon Hunt wrote: > > Hi List, > Asked a thousand times before I'm sure. I have researched and having no Joy > and could really do with some suggestions plea