Optimize problem
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I have a question I hope somone can shed some light onto. I am working with
the OPTIMIZE IPAS off disk # 7. I am working with large 3ds files and wanted
to shrink them to drop rending time and file size.
I created a test to see what type of results I would achive. My first test
file was a portion of my large 5 meg file, and the second was the optimized
version of the same file. I opetimized the objects at around 10-13 on the
angle setting. My results are so:
File 1:
Not optimized
Size: 253,004
Rendering time: 13min
File 2
Optimized
Size 227,725 10% decrease
Rending time: 21min.
Is there a reason for this? Any suggesions would be great!
David Humpherys
Animator – Mediatek Inc.
Federal Way, WA
Did you page to disk (swap) during the first render, Jonathan?
Try re-booting between renders.
-Alan Iglesias
No, I didn't page to disk. That's sothing I thought originally also, but the
machine has 32 megs and I checked the system configuration after each redering.
Thank for the suggesion.
As Alan said, it sounds like you're paging to disk the second time you render
(but you mentioned that you don't think that's happening). Regardless, you've
got something strange/anomalous going on in your system, and I wouldn't be able
to comment on it without having your original file _here_ so I could reproduce
what you're doing step-by-step. If you'd like to send me that original .3ds
file, I'd give it a shot.
– G
Thanks!
I don't have the file on this system, but I'll work with it some more, and if
I'm not successful I'll send it.
Muchos Gracias!