You could try an ugly hack:
Export the outer shell to Zbrush and decimate it there.
It will most likely give you holes and errors here and there
but the overall shape may survive reasonably well even around
some 50K-100K polys. Manually polishing/merging/optimizing
here and there may improve the result.
Import back and add to hierarchy, however you like it setup.
I would budget a half day to make it work and inject it into
the rig, with lot´s of passes, you may need a day, doublechecking.
Cheers,
tim
On 08.01.2013 12:30, Christian Freisleder wrote:
Hey Sebastian,
I already suggested this, but there are other things too like the car rig is
already there and production proven in cinema and tranferring the animation
isn't that much of a
problem. Still using softimage for shading in Vray and other stuff.
a big hug back from here too. :)
Christian
Sebastian Kowalski <l...@sekow.com> hat am 8. Januar 2013 um 12:09 geschrieben:
hey christian,
jep, softimage sucks with a lot of objects and i bet there are some user normal
properties on it. so welcome in a world of pain . . .
i would recommend a low-res version, as additional resolution in a reference
model.
btw: give them sponzaguys an hug.
Am 08.01.2013 um 12:02 schrieb Nuno Conceicao < nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com
<mailto:nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com>>:
Sorry I have to disagree, its quite bad considering its not deforming that
geometry, i just did a primitive here with 2.5 million polys and animated it,
full camera view
1920x1200 I get 80-90 fps in Shaded mode, 120 FPS in wireframe and I dont have
a Quadro 4000, just a GTX 480 (gtx 4xx and above are well known for having the
opengl perfomance
intentionally limited by Nvidia to favour Quadros)
So I would say his performance is not normal on Softimage with a Quadro 4000,
so its either something on his scene or on his hardware/drivers setup
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Stephan Haidacher <ca...@gmx.net
<mailto:ca...@gmx.net>> wrote:
mhhh, i agree the speed could always be better, but 20fps doesnt sound that
bad imo...
(seriosly, most character animation scenes i`ve seen (with a few chars) are
way slower
to interact (maya and soft), and somehow char-animators get by, (welcome to
the world of flipbooks ;) )
i`m also not sure why you do need the full car for animation, because most
of the time
a simple box style abstraction for the body and all wheels should be fine
for animation...
(and is built in like 10mins (worstcase), and can simply be switched using
2 passes if you
need to preview it fullres)
--stephan
On 1/8/2013 9:52 AM, Christian Freisleder wrote:
Hey list,
I'm currently working on a car commercial and most of the stuff here was
done in cinema4d before and is meant to be made in softimage.
After a view tests we realized that the view port is a lot slower than the
c4d one.
previously they took the shell of the car in render resolution (about
2.5mio polys, no deep hierarchy) and just did the animation with this in a
playback speed of about
45fr/sec on a quadro 4000.
doing the same in softimage with just a path animation an and everything
(67 obj ) below the animation null gives me like 20fr/sec a least.
The certified driver is already installed!
And proxy models are no option.
Any hints?
If it 's that slow it would pretty much kill the animation in softimage :(
Thanks in advance
Christian
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