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Problem loading over-written files

ChallyIIChallyII Posts: 49
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I'm having a big problem loading over-written files, which seems to have started recently.

 

I tend to use DAZ to create sequential artwork and mini-stories, so that I'll render a scene, reposition the figures, render again and so on, sometimes loading a new figure or prop as I go. Obviously, larger scenes take more time to load, but normally it's no more than ten minutes.

Recently, within a month or so, I've started to find that loading a scene where figures have been posed, rendered, re-posed and re-rendered, takes much longer- sometimes up to three hours- even for a scene with one or two figures. In fact, saving one single figure, having deleted all other figures, props, lights and cameras, still leads to one or two hour-long load times. In contrast, a figure saved only once can be loaded less than a minute.

I've been using DAZ for about ten years now, and while I've had slow loads on large scenes, I've never had such long loading times on what are often quite simple scenes. I'm wondering if it's to do with the save file becoming corrupted or damaged in some way, and I'm wondering if there's a way to fix it. I've re-installed DAZ to check that I'm on the latest version. I'm using a new-ish computer as well, only 8 months old, so I'm hoping the problem lies with DAZ.

 

Is this a common issue? Has anyone else experienced it? Are there any tips for dealing with it, because this is really starting to slow down my work-flow.

Comments

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,809

    Try using File>Save as>Scene Subset - do you see lots of extra nodes in the option dialogue? If so that may indicate that DS (or a plug-in) is not doing a complete clean-up of deleted items. The only drawback of using the Scene Subset option is that it won't include Render Settings, so if you want to keep those constant you should also save a Render Settings Preset, start a new scene, load the subset, apply the Render Settings, and save as a scene

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    What plugins are you running?

  • ChallyIIChallyII Posts: 49

    Hmm, thanks, I'll try that. I'm not running any plugins.

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