Yeah I totally agree. Softimage is still faster then Max showing low/medium poly deforming objects in the viewport. It's static high poly meshes that's really slow.
/Jens On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Szabolcs Matefy <[email protected]>wrote: > Honestly, it’s way slower, and in quality a lot worse than Max. It’s a > shame with the GigaCore and so on. The HQV viewport is almost useless, the > shadows are blotchy, and I see almost dots only, where I should see > softness…**** > > ** ** > > I hope it’ll be addressed ASAP. Since mostly ex-game developers, or > guys-close-to-games-development are working on XSI now, it’d be quite > natural to resolve this :D**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Szabolcs**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jens Lindgren > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:56 AM > *To:* Christian Freisleder; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Softimage Viewport rather slow?**** > > ** ** > > I thought the softimage viewport was fast a couple of years back but right > now it's even a lot slower than 3ds max viewport :(**** > > Hope they can make improvements on it.**** > > **** > > /Jens **** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Christian Freisleder <[email protected]> > 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/>**** > -- Jens Lindgren -------------------------- Lead Technical Director Magoo 3D Studios <http://www.magoo3dstudios.com/>

