Hi,
I've found at least
one reference to an apparently-ongoing problem with 3ds max. Mainly, too many objects in one scene (regardless of polycount) makes the whole app bog down and has for years. I'm using 2016 but again, from what I've seen this inability to handle scenes with lots of items has been an issue for a long time.
What techniques do people use to fight this, especially with ships covered in greebles? I'm thinking of booleaning the instanced plating to a raft so it's only technically six objects, but there are still myriad gun turrets, windows, etc.
Thanks!
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Have you checked with the Autodesk forums? The forums are occasionally, accidentally helpful. Sometimes the local Autodesk distributor ("Autodesk Partner") can make themselves useful as well.
Xrefs still count toward that "too many things at once" even though they're outside the main file. It's total count in-scene, not in-file.
The link in my first post is basically what I found repeated through the forums. If it's not insufficient hardware (which in my case it isn't) it's generally too many objects. 14k makes it into a slideshow as well.
So far, I've settled on "boolean everything in Rhino first" since hull plating can produce huge numbers of little details. Even though the polycount isn't high (1.1m per slab of plating) the number of little squares, rectangles, and other shapes was. Looks like there isn't really a trick--just "make fewer objects." Seems like object count > polycount when it comes to performance. Even with a 4.4GHz i7 2600k and 32GB RAM.
I guess I'll show myself out.
Thanks anyway!
Why TF do have so many objects in your scene?
You can have a ship covered in guns/greebles/windows, and still have one object. Just attach everything that not needs to move independent from eachother.