check/clean-up scenes that takes ages to load?

[Jens]

What are you guys using to clean up scenes that are taking ages to load?

I remember some years ago using sini to remove anim layers or something like that, that could help a lot, but now it no longer seems to find that type when running it. I have a scene now that takes 10-20mins to load and I would like to be able to troubleshoot it. I.e. is it due to some specific assets on a network drive making trouble, is it Forestpack having issues or missing enscape assets from the fbx export etc.

The file is huge and bloated (2.5gb without compress on save and 800mb with compres). Can't share due to very strict client NDAs.

[Aram Avetisyan]

Hi,

From my experience, specifically with large files over the past few years, big files just take long to load. And i have seen this pattern with other software too, e.g. Revit. A 500MB file for Revit can be considered big, and I had one which opened for 35 minutes. My max files usually do not go longer than 5 minutes to open, but I guess they are not big enough :)
I would suggest XRefing the scene to parts and opening each of them to see which one takes long.

Surely, if any of them have a specific Corona related object, which you think takes long to open (e.g. we had optimization for Volume objects, which in rare cases could load quite long), report it and we will have a look.

[danio1011]

Do you have any XREFs?  I have a scene (condo tower) where I pulled all the furniture out and xrefed it all to keep the compressed max file below 2.5gb.  Scene load time jumped from 5 minutes to 20 minutes.  It would just sit on the infamous ‘loading corona assets’ or whatever it says in the lower left bar (I know that’s not an accurate ‘Status.’). I nuked the xrefs and voila, back go normal.  So then I brought in the furny using Corona Proxies and load time went up slightly but not nearly as much.  I sometimes wonder if it’s a Xrefs don’t like Network storage thing…although I have 10gbe but still Max doesn’t always love networks.

Long story short, you using xrefs?  Possible to remove all and test?