Modelling performance in 3ds max 2013

insertmesh

hi,

I´m currently working on an organic Hi-poly-Model and I´m having a lot of trouble due to the crawling viewport performance while in subobject mode. The framerate is pretty decent in the viewport...until I enter subobject mode and start modeling, when it crawls down to about 1 fps...
Is there any way to improve viewport performance without splitting up the model in smaller chunks and then reattaching and welding after I´m done?

Or for that matter: whats your experience - up to how many polys can you model decently? 5.000? 10.000? That way I´d at least know into how many pieces i´d have to split up my model...

Mark Dygert

It really depends on what kind of hardware you have and what kind of video driver you are running in 3dsmax. Max defaults to the nitrous driver which is really is geared for higher end newer hardware, if you're running older hardware you will probably want to turn off realistic mode, switch to shaded and make sure the lighting is set to default 1 light and if that doesn't really help probably switch to Direct3D.

Configure viewport driver:
Main Menu > Customize > Preferences > Viewports tab > Choose driver.

Configure viewport settings:
Main Menu > Views > viewport configuration > Light and Shadows

AlexCatMasterSupreme

2014 can handle many more polys.

Ace-Angel

Max 2012 and 2013 are pretty buggy in that regard, see if you can get access to 2014.

Other then that however, Disable/Enable Nitrous and make sure you set the options to the lowest values in the Viewport settings as Mark mentioned.

EDIT: Oh, also, make sure you have all fancy options under your VGA card disabled. Stuff like AA Wireframes don't do any favors during subobject mode.

cptSwing

Is Viewport performance in '14 really that much better? (using '13 and to date have seen absolutely no reason to make the switch)

Jet_Pilot

try putting stuff in layers so you can easily hide chunks, or select what you want to work on, and hit Alt-q to go into isolation mode.

Kbrom12

cptSwing wrote: »

Is Viewport performance in '14 really that much better? (using '13 and to date have seen absolutely no reason to make the switch)

I use 2012 and have almost no issues in the viewport but I did try 2014 out and I saw an immediate viewport performance boost with the same scene. Using nitrous specifically. :thumbup:

cptSwing

Thanks for confirming the grass being greener on the other side! ;-)