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Title: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: philippelamoureux on 2015-01-27, 09:30:06
Am I the only one who's material editor is very slow with Corona...1st : my material preview quality is set to the default value (1). Every time I open the mat editor, 3ds max goes ''not responding'' for a few seconds, then all my mats get put in a render queue...it takes many many seconds until I can do something. I don't have a super duper pc (i7 2600k, gtx 670, 8gb ram) but I've never experienced that with any other renderer. Am I doing something wrong? My scene has like 30 materials in total.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: CiroC on 2015-01-27, 09:58:46
I am using 3ds Max 2015 and works fine. Sometimes if I have loads of maps it can take a few seconds to render the maps. What version are you using?
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: philippelamoureux on 2015-01-27, 11:18:05
2014
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: pokoy on 2015-01-27, 11:26:05
Is this Alpha 7.2 or a daily build? If it's Alpha, you probably have to wait for the final version, if it's a daily build, post a proper report in the bug section with the build number.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: CiroC on 2015-01-27, 11:34:10
I need to mention that I am using the daily builds, but even when I was using 2014 with Alpha 7.2 everything worked fine.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: pokoy on 2015-01-27, 12:13:11
Please report this with the daily build timestamp you're using, there were similar reports and it would be good to have this one fixed for good. Make sure you also test the latest build and see if it's better if you're not using it already.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: philippelamoureux on 2015-01-27, 12:17:06
I am using the stable 7.2 version with 3ds max 2014.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: romullus on 2015-01-27, 12:20:38
Is it with all scenes or with one particular scene? Does 3ds max has latest service pack installed?
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: steyin on 2015-01-27, 20:34:05
I've only ever had mat editor speed issues with a crappy/bad video card. Had them all the time at work with a Firepro 5000, switched to the Quadro 600 and all was fine. I usually change everything (on the mat selector menu at least) to text only to avoid any potential further slowdowns.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: maru on 2015-01-27, 21:02:07
I'm on an old i3 370m laptop with integrated Intel HD video chip, Max 2014 and I've never experienced any serious lags with mat editor. I guess this must be something system-specific like windows updates, graphic drivers or Max service pack...
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: philippelamoureux on 2015-01-28, 02:14:52
I might have done something incredibly stupid which is probably causing this. I scattered a lot of instances with multiscatter, but the models were not proxies. I'l still do some further testing to see if it's that!
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: Juraj on 2015-01-28, 15:10:20
I scattered a lot of instances with multiscatter, but the models were not proxies.

This is not problem at all.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: Ondra on 2015-01-28, 15:11:55
scene complexity should not influence material editor speed. If you can create a scene where material editor gets slower just because of some objects in it, please send it to me, I can probably easily fix it.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: philippelamoureux on 2015-01-28, 23:30:43
This (http://i.imgur.com/aXqPuy8.jpg?1)


I guess it's just that my materials are heavy. Every time I open one in the slate editor to tweak it...it's laggy. In this case it's a very big hdri map (15k wide), and most of my textures are 6k but usually it takes 1-3 secs to load a material, but sometimes (relatively often with this scene) it freezes 3ds max for 10 secs (not responding). Not a huge deal but still. Important to note that it's the first time I have that many materials with that quality.

By the way thanks for the support, guys.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: filipskrzat on 2015-08-27, 22:32:58
i must say, in max2014 material editor is very slow (with corona), specially with big scenes, even little change in material freezes 3dsmax for few seconds ;(
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: marobaro on 2015-10-02, 16:10:12
You're not alone.
I am a seasoned pro. Working in 3d studio since DOS v.4.
Swapped to Corona few months back, due to its incredibly natural and logical setup, plus great and fast renders. BUT (and it's a BIG one) slate with corona sends my machine (DellT5610) into spasms of perpetually spinning blue wheel and freezing windows. Didnt have that with vray. Not sure what to do as I love the way corona works. (less lack of glare and bloom rendering effects, and camera distortions perhaps)
Marek
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: srikken on 2015-10-03, 12:55:57
Same here

But I found out that if you turn of the renderqueue (bottom left in the slate editor) it will speed up a lot.
Only the material previews wont update anymore, so its guessing what the material will do in the render. Or use the interactive render to see what happens.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: mtanasiewicz on 2016-07-12, 13:31:59
Same here, extremly lagging slate material editor in max 2016 with all service packs...
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: maru on 2016-07-12, 14:06:56
Same here, extremly lagging slate material editor in max 2016 with all service packs...

Have you tried this solution? https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000011862-material-editor-is-very-slow-freezing-in-corona-1-4
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: juang3d on 2016-08-13, 23:22:48
Hey Maru.

I did everything but nothing seems to work, the lag in max is astonishin, it's impossible to work!

I'm desperate, right now I'm upgrading to Windows 10 annyversary update to see if this helps, but I'm in a tight deadline and this is breaking all my deadlines, I have 1.4 hotfix 1 :P

Cheers.
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: Jack on 2016-09-01, 20:28:31
Hey Maru.

I did everything but nothing seems to work, the lag in max is astonishin, it's impossible to work!

I'm desperate, right now I'm upgrading to Windows 10 annyversary update to see if this helps, but I'm in a tight deadline and this is breaking all my deadlines, I have 1.4 hotfix 1 :P

Cheers.

Same here..(( I tried all windows 7 updates and instructions and mat editor it is still very!!! slow. This really makes nervous while working in tough deadline as speed become very essential in 3D world. Hope this issue won't persist in the next version... ((         
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: TomG on 2016-09-01, 21:10:01
Don't forget we are looking for people experiencing this problem - just a note here for anyone who finds this thread first, please see:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,12975.msg83928.html#msg83928 (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,12975.msg83928.html#msg83928)

Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: denisgo22 on 2016-09-02, 01:02:48
3d max mat map Browser in last Max version's is completely absolutely terrible slowly after all the "wonderful" and very "convenient"
improvements produced by Autodesk:) for example: loading and caching last material Library opened and don't closed from preview's project or SEVERAL PROJECT'S--- O_O///especially it's "works great" with Office network's:)
The fastest  map Browser of 3dmax this old type map Browser from B.C. max:)

So to revert goto:
C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\20xx – 64bit\enu\plugcfg
and open SME.ini

Change to the following:
ShowMtlBrowser=0
UseOldMtlBrowser=1

and be happy as me:)))
Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: maru on 2016-09-02, 14:15:29
3d max mat map Browser in last Max version's is completely absolutely terrible slowly after all the "wonderful" and very "convenient"
improvements produced by Autodesk:) (...)
So to revert goto:
C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\20xx – 64bit\enu\plugcfg
and open SME.ini

Change to the following:
ShowMtlBrowser=0
UseOldMtlBrowser=1

But this has nothing to do with Corona, right? It also happens with any other renderer selected?


Title: Re: Slow material editor...only with corona
Post by: denisgo22 on 2016-09-02, 15:27:32
3d max mat map Browser in last Max version's is completely absolutely terrible slowly after all the "wonderful" and very "convenient"
improvements produced by Autodesk:) (...)
So to revert goto:
C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\20xx – 64bit\enu\plugcfg
and open SME.ini

Change to the following:
ShowMtlBrowser=0
UseOldMtlBrowser=1

But this has nothing to do with Corona, right? It also happens with any other renderer selected?

Right, this applies only to the 3dmax, and no matter what renderer to use////
With new map Browser from Autodesk, even Vray,ScanLine and other render's  materials opened much,much slowly////
your can see that by yourself...In any case, your can always restore all settings back///