Setting A Large Number Of Key Frames

[shadowm8]

Hi all,
I'm running into a problem with setting a large number of key frames in Maya.
It seems that the setKeyframe command causes a memory leak of some sort. So once I get to a certain amount of data I will inevitably run into an Out of Memory Error. I can't seem to find a way around it.

On a related note there doesn't seem to be a way to set multiple key frames with unique values?
I can pass a list to the 'time' argument but not to the 'value'!?!

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks!

[joojaa]

That would be the undo queue, disable it.

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On a related note there doesn't seem to be a way to set multiple key frames with unique values?
I can pass a list to the 'time' argument but not to the 'value'!?!

Well you can do this but its not going to make life any easier.

[shadowm8]

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That would be the undo queue, disable it.
Well you can do this but its not going to make life any easier.

Thank for the tip! Turning of the undo queue definitely slowed the massive memory leak. I still find it slowly increasing the allocation and then staying at the newly allocated memory usage after I finish executing my script. Which means if I were to run the function a couple of times eventually it will still run out of memory.
Is there anything else Maya stores that I can shut off?

While it might not make life any easier if you could share how to set multiple key frame with unique key values that would be great!

Thanks!

[joojaa]

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Is there anything else Maya stores that I can shut off?

No.

Setting item uses up 2-4*2 bytes of memory + the keyrame cache. which actually is a lot if you have thousands of objects. so every time you key frame a thousand objects you loose about 20 kilobytes of memory per range per object.

Its not important memory so maya does know how to swap it out effectively or even kill it if need be.

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if you could share how to set multiple key frame with unique key values that would be great!

make a function for it, that serves same purpose. but yes you can write the attribute arrays manually instead of using the key fame command.

It does not change the fact that underneath maya must set every piece of thing individually simply because computers have to do that. So fooling yourself into thinking maya does not do something does not mean it does not do so.

[shadowm8]

Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated!
I don't think I quite know what you mean by "write the attribute arrays manually" when it comes to setting keyframes. Could you please give an example?