and my timings are 2400 nulls in 54 minutes. A rate of 44.4 nulls constrained per minute on 2013SP1 64bit dual Xeon X5680s @3.33ghz - my workstation must be faster.
still, a ridiculous amount of time for such a basic task. Alan's script btw took 2 minutes to create, place and constrain all 2400 nulls. A very clear winner. apologies for the noise! best Rob On 11 January 2013 13:20, Nuno Conceicao <[email protected]>wrote: > Sorry mate, i made a mistake on my initial null amount, i had 2x more > nulls than i needed, i counted triangles instead of polys,duh!, i changed > my post a bit too late. > Anyways, ive cut the time to half, but still was very slow, i think once > it is large data sets it can get very slow in softimage doing things, in > any case after i got rid of the excess nulls, i only got 2-3 fps while on > the contrained to cluster nulls i got 4+ FPS. > > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Rob Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> wow, very interesting! 2 hours to constrain 2800 nulls - so thats only >> 15 nulls per minute , bit of a joke! Am sorry for suggesting it, I really >> did not appreciate how slow it is and thought the menu call to ICE > >> Kinematics > transform objects by particles might have been more >> optimised than Alan's Python script.. definitely not! maybe its written in >> VBscript or...? :) >> >> I guess the serious rigger constrainers are best to stick with Python >> scripted solutions for now. >> >> Also couldnt understand how it took so long as the example I made with >> few hundred wasnt that tedious to wait, so testing it out on a grid quick >> with 2400 nulls , the progress bar is already past 1/4 way though and its >> only been 5 minutes... oh wait screens frozen and gone white - will let you >> know final time if it finishes, just going for lunch! :D >> >> its obviously not multithreaded as only 1 core out of 24 is in use for >> this procedure - what a waste! >> >> cheers >> >> Rob >> >> >> >> >> On 11 January 2013 12:47, Nuno Conceicao <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> took nearly 2 hours to apply the transform to all the nulls, after, to >>> tes >> >> >> >> >
