Author Topic: Any scene debugging tools/scripts out there?  (Read 220 times)

2025-08-29, 18:05:29

Jpjapers

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Ive been having problems recently with some larger scenes and spending hours and hours debugging them to find a specific object thats causing the issue seems to be really inefficient.
Vray seems to have some great reporting tools whereby you can see a memory breakdown of your scene on a per object basis, stage by stage.
I know we have some amount of this in the error reporter currently but i was wondering if there are any maxscripts or debug/dev tools within corona that can give a more comprehensive breakdown of whats going on under the hood?

Its all well and good having a support system to upload problematic scenes to but it would be much more helpful if there were better reporting tools out there to help us debug scenes.

Thanks

2025-08-29, 19:46:10
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James Vella

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2025-08-30, 00:23:31
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Yeah ive tried forensic, its a great tool but not really what i need for this. Im getting really high parsing times all of a sudden on a live project and so far ive not managed to track down why. Ideally there would be a full scene memory report available from corona like the texture memory useage csv, but for materials and geometry.

2025-08-30, 15:44:42
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James Vella

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Ideally there would be a full scene memory report available from corona like the texture memory useage csv, but for materials and geometry.

Thats a good idea.

In the mean time I suppose the only thing I can think of is the old 50/50 way (remove 50%, hit render), do it again until the speed jumps up significantly, then you know which chunk to investigate.

Another idea which could give you more info (for geometry, and other info too), export one of those chunks as fbx (ascii not binary), then open the fbx with notepad. This will give you a tonne of info about the objects and its data but you would probably need a custom parser to get the data you want sufficiently, unless you dont mind scrolling though millions float values lol.
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Totally behind this tool, Please give more love to this idea, i been asking for it for maybe 2 years, the current memory report is TOO simple, almost worthless to debug a problematic scene..
https://chaoscorona.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CMAX-I-15