Upper Limit For Objects

[ptb]

Hi there,

Is there a way to calculate the upper limit for objects Maya can handle on my computer? (amd 3,2 ghz, 2gb ram, quadro fx 1500, winxp 32). Also considering that every object will have several hundred or even thousand keyframes. I already made a scene with 6000 animated objects and it worked fine, but before I "crack up" the new scene I'd like to know how far i can go.

Thanks

[joojaa]

Well, it does not really matter how much maya can handle. since you can allways partition the data. and merge stuff in the render phase. And that is limited by available memory resources. on 64 bit system thats potentially a lot! on 32 bit sytems memory will become a issue at some point.

However theres practical limit in what you can update in sane times. Offcourse again you can hide part of it when working.

[ptb]

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Well, it does not really matter how much maya can handle. since you can allways partition the data. and merge truff in the render phase. And that is limited by available memory resources. on 64 bit syutem thats a lot. However theres aprctical limit in what you can update in sane times.

what would be your rough estimate for my machine?

Partitioning wouldn't be very practical, because all pieces will be driven* by one particle shape.

*not realtime driven, but per-ID baked - so for baking all objects have to be present

[joojaa]

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*not realtime driven, but per-ID baked - so for baking all objects have to be present

No i dint think so. You can still partition the problem (its very rare indeed that you cannot partition a visualisation problem). Just the individual data need to be present.

I would say that practical limit is about a million or so polygons.

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Partitioning wouldn't be very practical

Well having 0.5 fps isnt practical either, the work amount and hitting the barrier is als not practical. Its atradeoff work somewhere else versus time doing the work.
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because all pieces will be driven* by one particle shape.

in that case partitioning is fabulously easy and extremely practical.

[ptb]

Just for the info:

I started expriencing problems at about 25 000 Objects.
Gosh, I hope it will render after merging (there will be about 40 000 all together).

[joojaa]

Export each part as mi merge the mi files and render that.