Hi Remi, which version of Maya are you switching over from? If you're coming from 2015 and this is the first time you've run parallel then much of the performance increase is in the skinning as that goes off to the GPU so is basically free, thats the big one.
In the most part for the actual rigs themselves we've not seen a massive increase in speed, in fact it can be slightly slower in the eval of just the rig node structures and no geo in the scene. I'm sure if you ran lots of custom solversyou could make better use of the parallel eval but for rigs built from standard nodes it's really not a big uplift in speed. However, when you then have clients with 5 characters in the scene all running MoCap and the skins are going off to the GPU then it's a huge boost. Can be a little unstable mind you! cheers Mark Mark Jackson CEO & Technical Director www.red9Consultancy.com <http://www.red9consultancy.com/> On 30 March 2017 at 15:23, David Moulder <[email protected]> wrote: > In general (animation rigs) I have to turn back to the old DG Eval mode. > Our rigs still rely on AM_Hip and AM_Shoulder constraint python nodes and > they tend to play up in parallel mode. We get joint pops, and subtly > different evaluation that isn't correct when compared to the old DG Eval > method. But I'm sure it's more than those 2 nodes. I've asked around at a > few Autodesk meetings and I'm hearing the same thing back from other game > devs. It gets turned off at most places, especially when exporting baked > animation data to game engines. > > I'd actually be interested to here who is using it, what amount of work > you did to get the most out of your character rigs. Did you have to change > nodes, re-author plugins etc. > > -Dave > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Rémi Deletrain <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi everybody, Is any of you already tried the 2017 version of Maya. If >> so, did you feel a real difference in the performance of node evaluation in >> animation? For my part I have not seen that much difference. A few frames >> per second but I had to remove the half of the scene if not Maya plant ... >> (node custom, expression, etc.). So I have half of the scene in less and >> I have almost nothing gain ... In the preferences I am in parallel and GPU >> OVERIDE >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/python_inside_maya/78a2bd8e-e289-4c63-b223-48d00c02a628% >> 40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/78a2bd8e-e289-4c63-b223-48d00c02a628%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > *David Moulder* > Technical Animator / Artist > [email protected] > *Professional Profile <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/david-moulder/1/b12/b5a>* > > Mobile: +44 (0)7814033242 <07814%20033242> > See who we know in common > <http://www.linkedin.com/e/wwk/5748982/?hs=false&tok=3tztwkse1silw1> Want > a signature like this? > <http://www.linkedin.com/e/sig/5748982/?hs=false&tok=3pwLU9-mBsilw1> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/python_inside_maya/CABD4PkRpLxxVzYrLCp1Pp5muy54xx > Lfm-%3D1ccAfgWJx3vk1Wzg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CABD4PkRpLxxVzYrLCp1Pp5muy54xxLfm-%3D1ccAfgWJx3vk1Wzg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------------------------- Mark Jackson CEO / Technical Director red9consultancy.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAGQH2FEZytRuw7UWJ2v%2BBLpOJs4uxO5C2vaUNpjFhH283%2BL1aw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
