cache disk/cache selective work?

[super gnu]

yet another pflow issue.. JOY!


i tried caching my pflow (only a few hundred particles) at the integration step rate, in the hope it would speed up prep for rendering with mblur, as it is unbelievably slow at the moment.

the cache operator ran out of ram at 12%.. i realized it was defaulting to 10 meg or something. i increased it to its maximum, which was around 4gb. it got to 13% then ran out of ram.. great.. that works well then.

then i remembered the two new cache operators adsk graciously gave us subscription people last year..

ive tried both. same story both times..the update button does absolutely NOTHING.

ive got the cache just below the render operator in the global event.

[super gnu]

ok this is really starting to get on my t*ts. cache, selective cache and cache to disk dont work.. mesher doesnt make any geometry, and i cant use network rendering or DR since each machine makes different particle positions. taken with all the other problems im having im wondering if there is anything pflow CAN do. it cant all be user error surely.


and just another note, with all these problems its a flow with....300 particles, and only 200 frames.

[henning]

I've had some strange problems with the disk cache in the past as well. Do you have viewport update enabled?

[super gnu]

i did, but i disabled it and same result.. update button does nothing. is there an issue with caching and shape instanced particles? i ask because if i turn off all my shape instances the standard max cache operator works. with the shape instance on it runs out of ram.. its not trying to cache the meshes is it? i see the two nbew cache operators have the option to not cache shapes.. but even with this off, or all the shape instances off, i still get no response from the update button in either of them.