Maya Can't Handle Heavy Mesh?

[blackstat1k]

Whats up everyone. Ive been a maya user since version 4, and am a big fan. But...i just rencently started learning Max, and man am i ever impressed.

Here is my problem. I have a model that is a little over 900,000 polys, and evertime i try to import the OBJ into maya, maya crashes. Wont even open it. I do the same in Max, and Max opens is perfectly with absolutly no lag.

Is there some kinda of setting I need to change in maya? I find it hard to believe it cant handle a mesh like that.

I am using Maya 8.0

Thanks!!

[joojaa]

Don't use obj maya needs a hell of a lot of extra memory to fix the order of the obj, wich can handle the object in many ways so certain kindd of obj ordering id pure poisn to maya, and certain kind is poison to max instead.

And yes i saw a user having 6 million ploys in a 32 bit maya. no problem there. Tough my graphic card goes up to 4-5 mil only after that its smoked. Didn't test this on a64 bit system tough

Anyway you rarely need that sort of polycount for anything beyond sculpting and rendering a nd for taht you ned not clutter the working environ (you get the same effact but with better interactive speed in other ways too)

[xerxes73]

by this, jooja of course means use a detailing app for the object in question, then render out a normal/displacement map for use within maya. if it's a single object we're talking about and not an entire scene, 900k polys becomes virtually unworkable outside of a detailing app. if you really need to work it in maya, your best bet are the soft modification or sculpt geometry tools, though zbrush and mudbox are really the apps you want for this. happy modeling!