wrap problems

[defstar]

I've made a torso(20000 polys) that I want to deform with a low res copy(3000 polys) using a wrap. When I try this the task manager shows the memory usage going up from 130 to 490 in about 3 secs. the low res copy is a duplicate with 85 poly reduction on it, I've also tried to use extracted poly vertices from the original subd model as the wrap but on both attempts Maya crashes.
Do you think that the hi res torso is er, too high?
I would use subds but they are such an unknown to me that I dare not risk it on this job.
Thanks.

[nieder3d]

without dual or a big processor wrap deform is pretty intensive on computers- I really can't see why you would crash from this... But there is one thing you can try, In the Wrap Deform Options box there is a limit influence Area Use Max Distance, check this option and set your max distance as low as possible, try 0.2 first then go up, If the number is too small when the wrap is created some of the cv's on the object being wraped won't get wraped there for not deform with the wrap- just bump this number up ever so slightly untill it's all there- this cuts down on the memory usage and lightens up the proccesor load, the max distance is the furthest distance a cv from the object being constrained will be constrained...
- and subD's work great with wraps...I've been playing with them since 2.5 and are really starting to like them, as far as your character having to many polys, I've worked with higher counts and not run into any problems like that- but on a character so big so to say if you don't use the max distance it will really slow down your machine.
-good luck
sid
sid69graphic@yahoo.com

[stormtroopar]

On another important note, are you using Maya 2.5 or 3.0. Cause they have significantly increased the speed of wrap in 3.0. In 2.5, wrap was in many case unusable, ate up too much memory and too slow (this is dealing with fairly high res character).

If using wrap, definitely suggest using 3.0 instead... if thats the case. If not, then the max distance would be the way the optimize the performance.