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STRAT
04-22-2005, 07:48 AM
Hi guys.

Just a gripe i think maxon may like to look at.

if i load in a textured up model into cinema, even a fairly simple one, if i havent pre-specified the texture path locations first before hand before i load in the model, cinema grinds to a halt when i either go to the material editor to review the mapped materials, or it takes absolutely ages in prepairing the mesh at the beginning of a render.

pre-specifying the material path make c4d run like clockwork, but if i dont and i have textured materials in the scene that have unspecified paths, c4d is completely un-usable.

does anybody else find this? and any suggestions how to remedy it maybe?
Srek
04-22-2005, 08:21 AM
Hi,
this happens when you have large foldertrees or even network drives set in the texture path.
CINEMA has to search trough all those directories and drives to find a matching bitmap file.
One of the worst scenarios is listing a CD-ROM drive in the texture paths. If no or the wrong CD is in the drive this will result in a major lag.
Cheers
Björn
STRAT
04-22-2005, 08:27 AM
cheers Srek. yup, thought so.

i do use my works network drives for textures. runs as smooth as butter if specified, but un-usable if not.

this is only a problem usually if i load up an old model to work on again, and i cant remember the texture paths. takes up to half hour to find out the material locations. really frustrating.
lllab
04-22-2005, 11:21 AM
yes i have the same problem, i reported this since version 7.
it also happens if you import an older file from our libary, which has set a different path.

as i suggested it would be nice to have an option to stop a task with esc. key.
this would solve it.

so you could stop the rendersearch, specify the folder, and then the textures seems to be ok.

hope maxon can have a look a that.
(we also have all textures at a networkdrive, its a vary fast raid. but we have many gb of texture collections and gb of libary modells. so no slow netdrives, everything configured fine and no cdroms)

thanks
lllab
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