Chainmail in maya

supermanlt700

yo, I've made some chainmail in zbrush thats obv in the multimillions with multimesh. how the hell do i use this in maya without it crashing my system. BTW it hasn't crashed it yet but I can tell it's a lot of strain on it. Anything you guys can tell me about how to manage large meshes like this i would appreciate.

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CheeseOnToast

What are you intending to do with it in Maya?

supermanlt700

I doubt that I'll animate it but I'd like to have the option if possible. but for all intents and purposes lets assume I'm only going to render stills. I'm running 32gb of ram and like i said it hasn't crashed it yet I can just tell it's taxing it. the chainmail is about 4 million polys and I'm just curious how other people manage this.

CheeseOnToast

There's no way to use a lower poly proxy that can be subdivided at render time? How does the chainmail mesh look in zbush? Could you use lower poly chain links?

Also, try using the legacy viewport rather than viewport 2.0. I get a big performance increase doing that.

supermanlt700

yep, I just created a proxy. I'm getting around fine now between the proxy and legacy viewport. it's weird that the legacy works like that.

I appreciate the advice man.

oglu

nearly every render has a data container to load objects only during render time... 
in vray its vrmesh proxy... in arnold its a standin... 

just convert the highres chainmail to a vray mesh... 

oglu

CheeseOnToast said:

Also, try using the legacy viewport rather than viewport 2.0. I get a big performance increase doing that.

for me its the other way around... vp2 is much faster... specially with GPU alembic files...

supermanlt700

Thanks for the tip OGLU. I'll check it out and see what i can come up with.