Scene File Documentation-beginner queries

[Sheltem]

Yeah I know It doesnt look like much but 7 minutes is correct... Lux takes about 10minutes to load the 30mb file though

Cheers!

S

[Poncho]

you're saying it takes 17 min before the rendering even starts? that's way too much, if you ask me. when I export a simple rim (90.000 vertex's) it's starting with rendering within 13 seconds. LuxRender uses than 160MB work memory on my PC.

[Sheltem]

hm that model got 214400 triangles or 642000 vertices...no idea how that compares with other models though... What happens if you try to export 7 of your rims at once?

[Poncho]

Zeven rims, with 779.565 vertex total. Around 20-30 sec in Blender and 55 sec in Luxrender to get starting.

1,3GB:

No way near 17 minutes....

I do want to highlight that I have a subsurf modifier in blender set on 2 (for render) and in luxblend materials on subdivision 0 and smooth.

This is on a CPU E8400 on 3Ghz (but it only uses one core, if I'm right)

[Sheltem]

Interesting! I would imagine that my coding isnt very speed optimized hence the 7 min to export the whole lot but I am stumped why it takes 10min to start the render. Just out of curiosity: how big is the .lxo file for your rims?

I did some more poking around and got a question to the Devs: When I start Luxrender from a batch file like this:
"C:/Program Files/LuxRender v0.5/luxrender.exe" -t 4 "C:\Users\jan\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Revit\LuxExporter\lxs testscenes\camera.lxs"
I get this messages running through for a got 10 minutes (see attachment)
But when I open the same file directly from Lux via file open it does not display thoses messages and starts to render in under 1 minute

Any ideas??

S

[dougal2]

I've already asked once for those Mesh messages to be supressed - and then the change was reverted.

Outputting all those messages does slow down lux's startup quite considerably, however they seem to be considered "important" by certain devs.

I've submitted a patch for lux that will enable filtering out of certain messages. (ie. debug/info/warning/error etc).

[Sheltem]

Hi Dougal,

is it possible to have a switch which would force luxrender to suppress these status messages?

Otherwise I think I figured why I got them one way but not the other...I used to different lux versions

S

[dougal2]

My patch for -V verbosity option has been merged into CVS today by Lotuspec.

[Sheltem]

Thats great!!

Cheers!

S

[Poncho]

So, how is the speed now?