Steve, yes that was my thought to do that by iterating over each and building up the numpy array. Usually I can just dump the Weights.Array into numpy.array() but I can't even get to that point yet because of casting into a Python tuple or list or whatever. I'll give that a shot.
Matt, I don't need to be jumping through more hoops and crossing the streams with intermingled JScript / VBScript plug-ins. You may have a point, maybe one of those languages handles the amount of data better though. I have tried splitting the calls separately but that doesn't help either. :\ Thanks for the tips, will tinker. Eric T. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Matt Lind <speye...@hotmail.com> wrote: > You'll consider C++ but not something simpler like JScript of VBScript? > Seems rather odd logic. > > Anyway, how you access information is important. Calling > Envelopes(0).GetWeights2().Array as a single statement will incur more > overhead than doing this: > > var oEnvelope = Envelopes(0); > var oWeights = oEnvelope.GetWeights2(); > var aWeightData = oWeights.Array; > > Every time you call a property or method, you prod the system to allocate > resources to satisfy the request. There are limits to how much memory you > can grab at a time, as you've encountered, and by asking for all of it at > once you're more likely to exhaust it. By separating statements you split > the allocation into 3 separate smaller pools, which if taken to the limits, > allows you to access more memory than with a single transaction and with > less worry of bumping into the ceiling. > > It's more code to write, but it'll work more efficiently in the case > you're dealing with. Works particularly well with JScript ;-) > > > Matt > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:50:26 -0400 > From: Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@gmail.com> > Subject: Envelope Weights Array, out of memory error > To: "softimage@listproc.autodesk.com" > > > Hello all, > > Right off the bat, no I'm not going to use VBScript or JScript. > > I'm running into an issue in Python that I'm pretty sure is just a simple > case of literally out of memory that Python has available but I'm posting > anyway to see if anyone has ideas. > > I have a mesh with ~350k points and 498 skin deformers. When I try to > access the Weights Array it errors out saying Out of Memory Error in > Python. > > Code: > Envelopes(0).GetWeights2().Array > > This simply doesn't work. Anyone have any ideas on how to get around this > in Python or should I look to other tools for this? > > I'm guessing I need to get a buddy to write me a C++ command instead. > > Thanks in advance. > > -------------------------------------------- > Eric Thivierge > http://www.ethivierge.com > >
