A month back I got a really nice car model from a client, probably the best car model I've ever seen. It was in 3ds Max format so I had to export to fbx and import it in Softimage. The first thing I always do is to remove the user normals from the whole scene, otherwise the viewport performance makes it unworkable. The car has 788 objects and 3.24 million polys, kind of a light/medium production scene. Everything is static, not a singel keyframe in the scene. Navigating the camera, at first the frame rate is terrible at around 9 fps in shaded mode. I need to toggle back and forth between shaded and wireframe and move the camera around in between and then suddenly I get 37 fps in shaded and I can work. I suppose it has then fully loaded the model onto the graphics card, but to me it feels more like something isn't working as it should, because it can never get the full 37 fps if I only remain in shaded mode. I'm using a Quadro 4000.
Softimage FPS: 37 wire 29 hidden line 37 shaded 3ds Max FPS: 50 shaded /Jens On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Nuno Conceicao <nunoalexconcei...@gmail.com>wrote: > Well, last month we did a project with a car with 11 million polygons, > quite heavy, so I did just a quick test to fit these requirements. > Got rid of excess geo until i got something around 2.5 million polys, > still was left with 146 objects so parented them to a null and made it spin > on full camera view shaded and got 41 FPS. > There is a bit of lag time before the graphic card kicks in with the full > performance though, just takes a few seconds spining the model around for > it to reach 41 but started around 13 FPS > > This model also came from cad, passed through maya and got imported using > FBX, so for this test i made sure all the user normal clusters were gone > (no need for them for animation) > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Christian Freisleder > <m...@buntepixel.eu>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 >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Jens Lindgren -------------------------- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios <http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/>
