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3DSmax : Animated Crowd killing my pc
Just want to render a scene with 100-200 bipeds but max freezes for 10mins if I save or edit. I've tried x ref and containers but it still struggles. (I have a high quality pc, 10GB of ram etc) Not sure what else to do? Any ideas? -
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I don't really know much about your situation but isn't something like 100-200 animated characters you want to do in post. And if not hopefully this can be a bump for an answer :) -
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Do you have any posture collections in biped's Copy/Paste rollout ? There was a bug in some Max versions filling this rollouts with copies and copies of postures. Might look if thats the case ( pretty hard on hundreds of bipeds ...), but there might be a cleaner script on scriptspot as far i remember Another thing is… -
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Just explored point cache but it doesn't work on bipeds without skin. Think I've tried everything now. -
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Skeleton. Shouldn't that make it even faster? They have no skin or extra mesh, it's just default bipeds. -
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Are they biped skeleton or skinned characters? If they are skinned characters you can point cache them and it will make things much faster. -
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10 gigs of ram isn't that much for a scene with probably that many polys. -
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200 skeletons would be worse than point cache. The transformation calculations on each bone is probably what is killing your machine. That's why many cinematic houses use Houdini and destroy the rig, and use point caches to edit. Try breaking up your scene into groups of 10/20. Them composite them together. You can use the…
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