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joelzmann
11-04-2009, 02:01 PM
i've got a chaaracter rig i've been working on that takes long saves times (from 20 sec to forever depending where im working from). The file is about 5.40 mb, has no lights, no textures, and i've used optimize scene size. I've scene these two discusions here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=258889
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=218808

but i get no results from these methods either.
Coyote12
11-04-2009, 10:16 PM
Do you have history on your objects? Controllers? Geometry?
mberglund
11-04-2009, 10:55 PM
ive seen the collada plugin cause long load times. This was an issue at my studio and the first that came to mind :)
DanHaffner
11-05-2009, 03:57 AM
Heh, I had a rig that took a full minute to save, but I also have 1.5 million poly's in the scene along with 156 dynamic joint chains.

One thing you might want to try is exporting out your rig, and importing it into a clean scene and see if that helps any.
mberglund
11-05-2009, 05:51 AM
Good point about exporting and re-importing. sometimes that works. Are you saving in binary or asci (.mb or .ma)? Try saving as .ma and open it up with word pad or something better, see if you can spot anything weird.
thebrianproject
11-05-2009, 04:43 PM
I have this same problem with one of my models. I tried optimizing, exporting as obj, and deleting history and nothing works.

The only thing that I used differently than with my normal workflow was that mel script mj polytools. It was began in an older version of maya so that was why I was using it.

just out of curiosity did you use mjpolytools?
pearblossom
11-09-2009, 05:00 PM
there's a light linking bug that could cause this. Save it out as an .ma file and look at it to see if you have a few thousand extra light links in there..
pearblossom
11-09-2009, 05:03 PM
ah.. nev mind, guess you tried that..
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