Wrap deformer takes tons of memory?

[jpchou]

I am following the Advanced Character Modeling video with Doug Law -
except instead of a human character, I am doing a dog. It's actually a
relatively simple model.

When I create the low poly version, the skeleton, then smooth bind
to the poly, then wrap the high resolution nurbs model to the low poly,
it takes forever to do any operation. My disk is trashing and one time,
Maya gave me an out of memory error (undo last operation).

I am running with 512MB ram and over 2.5GB swap.

Does wrap take a ton of memory? In the video, he seems to have no
problems at all, with a more detailed model even.

BTW, I have a fur description on the Nurbs dog - maybe that's it?

Thanks.

Jeff

[jtk77]

yes it does . New to Version 2.5 is the option box so you can regulate how much memory it uses . Of course the more memory , seems the more acrute it is . But at least now it doesn't run amuck with out supervision .

"...If I don't always like what I've made ,well,thats life for you .."
--Kit SummersIsle

[figs]

Yes, the wrap deformer is incredibly slow and takes up tons of memory, growing slower as your hi res model gets more dense. Where did you get your Advanced Skinning Video? Are you using one single wrap on each character, or have you been able to wrap specific areas, editing membership and weighting on the wrapped surfaces? Does the skinning method on the video work for complex characters or is the guy just skinning cartoony models?

[sid69g]

I think the fur may be your biggest problem- if your set is no more techniqual than the vid, I would say kill the fur-deleting any trace of it to see if it updates any faster- I wouldn't suggest ever putting fur into a scene that isn't finished- and be careful sometimes you think all the furs gone or any attributes related to it but it's not... can really make things difficult, fur along with cloth and pfx should always be added after everything else is pretty much finalized- Hope this will help I like using the wrap deformer, I've even found a few new uses for it=- and I haven't run into any memory problems with it and I'm running abou the same type system...

-sid69 sid69graphic@yahoo.com
student @ Ex'pression Center for New Media xnewmedia.com