Encountering Dynamically Animated Surface problem

# 1 09-03-2012 , 06:37 PM

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Encountering Dynamically Animated Surface problem

Hello Everyone!
I was working on a project about
populating a high polygon
model on a dynamically animated surface via MEL. This MEL instructs
Maya to randomly copy the model 10 times.
When I run the script, Maya copy just 3 times and then would crashed and closed. What should I have done to got rid of this problem?
I need to populate hundreds of these models, please show me a reliable method
to do this.
It should be noted that my computer hardwares are suitable {CPU: intel core 2 duo E7400 2.8 GHz; 3 GHz of RAM DDR II; VGA: GeForce 9600}.
Thanks

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# 2 09-03-2012 , 07:07 PM

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How high poly is this? It might be that your hardware is not suitable after all. I'm assuming you mean 3GB RAM; this isn't a tremendous amount when working with very high poly models, and won't be enough if you need hundreds of them. You can create low poly proxies for populating the scene.

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# 3 09-03-2012 , 07:37 PM

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How high poly is this? It might be that your hardware is not suitable after all. I'm assuming you mean 3GB RAM; this isn't a tremendous amount when working with very high poly models, and won't be enough if you need hundreds of them. You can create low poly proxies for populating the scene.

Originally Posted by stwert

Thanks a million!
I think you're student of biomedical communication (like as Eddy Xuan at XSI studio), thus I can tell you my scene was a cell membrane coverd with several transferrin molecules (along with receptors) and each complex contains 312758 faces. Win xp, just can use 3GB out of 4GB RAM.
1. How can I create and use low poly proxies for populating the scene?
2. Do you have any suggeston for rendering this scene?

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# 4 09-03-2012 , 08:34 PM

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Why not just decimate the mesh? That seems very high.

You could also try and use LODs (level of detail) groups. See here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ebbNjBiQY

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# 5 09-03-2012 , 08:51 PM

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I think you're student of biomedical communication (like as Eddy Xuan at XSI studio)

Originally Posted by mortezarel

I am indeed. You mean AXS Studio. They're awesome.

I don't know if this will help, but if you don't want worry about proxies, you could try just viewing the viewport in bounding box mode (in shading panel menu).