- Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:36 am
#274534
I noticed a general quite critical slow down in maya when using mxm's w/ textures assigned to them via file node.. NOT a slowdown on the opengl screen(that runs fine I even have the hardware texture preview res set lowest to 32x32 pixels) but a slowdown when I render or load a texture (jpg) file - also happens when maxwell enging fires up.. even if i have 1 texture assigned the startup is incredibley slow.. also this slow for when I acctually assign the jpg or texture file in maya.. it takes FORVER to update the file node w the textureimage name...
then when i hit render it says:
...
[01/July/2008 18:28:48] Checking Data
[01/July/2008 18:28:48] Loading Bitmaps & Preprocessing Data
(THIS IS WERE IT STOPS FOR LONG TIME)
after 1min to 10min- depending on how many texture files i have in the scene it continues to...
[01/July/2008 18:29:04] Start Voxelization
[01/July/2008 18:29:04] End of voxelization
[01/July/2008 18:29:05] Start Rendering
...
I never had this problem before mx1.7 either w the enging or the slow texture loadup in maxwell...
I run a decent machine (DUAL xeon 64 3.0ghz w 16GB RAm 2xQuadroFX 4600cards)
ALSO I noticed this slow down when loading textures in MXED (maxwell material editor) cuz i was gettign frustrated waiting for textures to load in maya. .but maxwel material editor too takes FOREVER to load the jpg I have selected!-- the biggest jpgs i load are 2k or maybe a 4 k texture - but I never had such slowness before w 2k textures..
then when i hit render it says:
...
[01/July/2008 18:28:48] Checking Data
[01/July/2008 18:28:48] Loading Bitmaps & Preprocessing Data
(THIS IS WERE IT STOPS FOR LONG TIME)
after 1min to 10min- depending on how many texture files i have in the scene it continues to...
[01/July/2008 18:29:04] Start Voxelization
[01/July/2008 18:29:04] End of voxelization
[01/July/2008 18:29:05] Start Rendering
...
I never had this problem before mx1.7 either w the enging or the slow texture loadup in maxwell...
I run a decent machine (DUAL xeon 64 3.0ghz w 16GB RAm 2xQuadroFX 4600cards)
ALSO I noticed this slow down when loading textures in MXED (maxwell material editor) cuz i was gettign frustrated waiting for textures to load in maya. .but maxwel material editor too takes FOREVER to load the jpg I have selected!-- the biggest jpgs i load are 2k or maybe a 4 k texture - but I never had such slowness before w 2k textures..