MAX Frustrations

[glorybound]

What exactly is MAX does when the dang thing sites at 'not responding', yet my CPU and RAM is practically 100% free? It just sits there and does nothing, forever (3-4 minutes and sometimes more). I can navigate without issues, picking things and doing what I want, and all of a sudden it freezes. Is there something I can do, or shouldn't be doing?

[vlado]

Have you tried disabling the progressive refinement of the Nitrous viewport?

Best regards,
Vlado

[glorybound]

Hmmm.... not sure. I'll check, once MAX decides to wake up.

Have you tried disabling the progressive refinement of the Nitrous viewport?

Best regards,
Vlado

[glorybound]

It was enabled, so I disabled it. It doesn't seemed to have helped any, but we'll see.

[Vizioen]

Well, I can see you have 26 000 objects selected. As far as I know, MAX doesn't like a ton of objects and when selected that makes it even worse. Why not use forest pack to place you trees, that way you only have one forest pack object.

[super gnu]

not only that, but 26,000 shaded objects.

when doing loads of trees like that you should really use "display as box" at all times, unless you desperately need them shaded.

[glorybound]

I have found that when I keep it shaded, it actually performs better, or at least the same. Toggling from one to the other takes 30-60 seconds, so I was just leaving it on shaded. The thing is, most of the time everything moves nicely, but out of the blue it'll just sit and spin, for no reason. I can have everything on and shaded, pan and zoom in real time, without an issue. And other times, I can have a hand full of things on and it'll site and spin for 3-5 minutes and then free itself up.

[glorybound]

One plant and it's been siting here for about 5 minutes.

[glorybound]

You do mean the Improve Quality Progressively, correct?

Have you tried disabling the progressive refinement of the Nitrous viewport?

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

I have that sometimes as well, but then max don't recover for me. I already left it for the night but was still frozen the next morning. I usually roll back to the latest autoback, that's why I have it to every 5 min and keep everything to xrefs so the saves are fast.
One thing you should probably keep in mind : disable the maps in the viewport, it help a lot with the loading time of the files, but also keep the GPU ram low.

Stan

[glorybound]

Disable map in viewports. Are you talking about object color under the Display Color tab?

[Vizioen]

I think Stan means the "Shaded without maps" mode.

[glorybound]

Gotcha. I'll try that. Thanks!

I think Stan means the "Shaded without maps" mode.

[glorybound]

It's really more than just a viewport issue. I can have one thing turned on, let's say one wall. If I pick the diffused slot, as an example, I wait. I have to wait for absolutely every movement, however it's only 1/2 the time. It might just be how it is with a large scene, but it is driving my insane.

[Morbid Angel]

It's really more than just a viewport issue. I can have one thing turned on, let's say one wall. If I pick the diffused slot, as an example, I wait. I have to wait for absolutely every movement, however it's only 1/2 the time. It might just be how it is with a large scene, but it is driving my insane.

welcome to the wonderful world of max

Sorry I couldn't offer a solution.