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Levitateme

07-11-2003, 03:06 PM

does anyone know what the .mayaswatches foldesr are used for? i have them all over my HD, im not sure why there created. i would say 1 for ever 10 actually has something int it. i started a new project for work today, and i have swatches folder in there also. im just curious what they do and if i need them.

ceql

07-11-2003, 03:11 PM

afaik, They're just lil thumbnails that Maya made to speed up hypershade performance! ;) It should be fine to delete em, if you like!

Levitateme

07-11-2003, 03:13 PM

thanks ceq

Cameo

05-05-2004, 01:21 AM

They dont seem to work that well at speeding up performance then. The hypershade seems to be the single sluggish thing in Maya. With a scene with 50+ shaders it takes an age for it to initialise. Anyone got any advice dealing with it in large scenes?

devdoka

05-05-2004, 02:15 AM

I think you can disable Hypershade updates
(if you can work with that)

renderThumbnailUpdate false;
// Turns off thumbnail updates

renderThumbnailUpdate true;
// Turns on thumbnail updates

All the Best,

-Dennis

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