Importing nDynamics take very long time


#1

Hi,

I have a fairly complex nSim scene consisting of 2 nSolvers, 1 nCloth and 1 nHair. When I import the simulation setup scene to my render scene it takes really long time - approx 40 minutes. When I import the render scene to my dynamic setup it takes a few seconds. Just opening the nSim scene takes approx 1 minute. Does anyone know how I could make the importing of the nSim scene faster or what causes the very long time delays? It happens in Maya 2012, 13 and 14 all x64.

Thank you,
M.


#2

Is your sim scene saved at frame 0 or before the sim?

Im betting thats it, that its importing and simming it up to whatever frame you have it saved on :wink:


#3

Hey Howard, tested it with rewinding to frame 1 both scenes and it seems to be a bit better but still - opening the sim scene takes a minute, and importing it approx. 30 minutes now. Thanks - you saved me 1/4 time :slight_smile: Anyways, I think this delay could be caused because I’ve got over 3000 dynamic curves, being wrap deformed, and it is quite complex setup - when importing it probably needs to go through all the nodes to check for unique names etc. and when it finds a colliding name it needs to rename it, and because of the complexity of the graph it needs to mark dirty quite a lot of nodes … can’t think of another reason. The same happens when I try to reference the sim scene setup - takes forever to reference.

Thank you for helping out,
M.


#4

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