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[Max] Bug Reporting / Animated Corona proxies displaying in box mode during viewport preview

« on: 2023-02-22, 05:23:49 »

Hi,

We usually test animated previews with the viewport 'Create preview animation' in 3dsmax. Previously in the proxy the full mesh mode would display correctly every frame, however in the recent upgrade to Corona 9 they go into box mode as if adaptive degradation is on, even when off. Have tried a lot of different viewport settings and enabling 'never degrade' in the object properties but no luck.

It seems like this would be intended to speed up timeline scrubbing however not sure where this has changed in a Max update or with Corona, and if there is a workaround to previz corona proxy animations?

max 2023.3 Corona 9 HF1

Kind Regards

David

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[Max] I need help! / Preparing Geometry times

« on: 2022-11-29, 01:59:51 »

Hi, just wondering if there's anything else we can look at to reduce the preparing geometry times?

I checked the geometry parsing logs and couldn't find anything.

Working with some very large scenes, multiple Forest pack trees, lots of people etc Once it starts rendering after 30-40 minutes it's actually pretty quick and ram usage is half capacity (5950x 128gb Machine) Could this be a forest pack proxies issue or another plugin?

using Corona 8 HF 2

Attached the logs below.

Thanks

2022-11-28 14:30:45  Computing displacement took 12.0480003 seconds
2022-11-28 14:30:45  Preparing geometry
2022-11-28 14:30:52  Embree: memory usage: 4.5 GB. Total embree build time is 6493ms, top level commit took: 764ms. There are 1925 embree geometry groups, 879406 instances, triangle objects: non-animated=4199/animated=8, hair objects: non-animated=0/animated=0, custom objects: non-animated=0/animated=0, particle objects: non-animated=0/animated=0
2022-11-28 14:30:52  Embree scene building took: 6493
2022-11-28 14:52:40  Preparing geometry took 1314.75403 seconds
2022-11-28 14:52:40  Preparing lights
2022-11-28 14:52:40  Preparing lights took 0.117000006 seconds
2022-11-28 14:52:40 
2022-11-28 14:52:40 
2022-11-28 14:52:40      Rendering started...
2022-11-28 14:52:40  Rendering initial pass


2022-11-28 14:30:52  Embree scene building took: 6493
2022-11-28 14:52:40 
2022-11-28 14:52:40 
2022-11-28 14:52:40      Rendering started...