setting keys on parent nulls (then slow feedback) 2004-03-07 - By +
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that's what i did already...
its much much faster.
Ben Kilgore wrote:
>Quick fix:
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>If you are not animating the 10K or need to see them whilst you are, put
>everything you are animating under a model, export it,
>do your animation in a separate scene, and bring that model back when you
>are done animating. This way you don't have to merge.
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>Ben
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>From: "+" <softimage@(protected)>
>To: <XSI@(protected)>
>Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 2:51 PM
>Subject: Re: setting keys on parent nulls (then slow feedback)
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>>you mean like: "knock knock little 1-poly grid, are you visible or not?"
>> > grid1: "no no i'm invisible, sweety" > xsi: "okidoki, let's go to the
>>next one, lalalla", "knock knock little 1-poly grid, are you visible or
>>not?" > grid2: "no no i'm invisible too, sweety" > xsi: "hmm, ok, thanks
>>for letting me know. i'm on my way to the 3rd grid, lalilala"...
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>>kim aldis wrote:
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>>>>-- --Original Message-- --
>>>>From: owner-xsi@(protected)
>>>>[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of +
>>>>Sent: 06 March 2004 18:59
>>>>To: XSI@(protected)
>>>>Subject: Re: setting keys on parent nulls (then slow feedback)
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>>>>no of course i'm not animating a null containing the 10'000 objects...
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>>>It's beeb known. ;-)
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>>>No, they shouldn't update at all if they're not visible; xsi does a lazy
>>>evaluation, only updating those that need it. My guess is it still has
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>to
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>>>loop through them all even if it's only to figure out if they're visible
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>>>not. If it were me, though, I'd still do a merge, even if you're not
>>>animating them all.
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>>>>most of them are textured 1-poly grids. - but do they affect
>>>>the feedback if they're hidden in the scene? shouldn't be...
>>>>i could try to merge them all though. at least the ones that
>>>>are really fix and not animated by expressions.
>>>>
>>>>i just work with those 4 grids (there are some more to
>>>>animate too but hidden for now) with hidden lattice and
>>>>hidden implicits (only unhidden in the user viewport so i can
>>>>animate them. but when previewing i toggle only the
>>>>cam-viewport on. still when i set key on the parent daddy
>>>>nulls it gets very slow and i didnt even branchselect them to
>>>>key it. well, hmm, i'm now doing it directly on the grids and
>>>>implicits...
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>>>>thx
>>>>+ mato
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>>>>kim aldis wrote:
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>>>>>Are you 10,000 and odd objects also under the null? If so, you're
>>>>>keying everything, in which case it's hardly surprising it's slow.
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>>>>>One thing Xsi isn't good at handling is many objects in a scene and
>>>>>10,000 is way up there at the top. If these objects aren't being
>>>>>animated then try and find a way of merging them. 10,000 single poly
>>>>>objects is way slower than 1 object with 10,000 polys.
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