speed tree animated trees render very slow in vantage

[digital_technologies]

Dear vantage team
speedtree cinema trees animate very nice in speedtree software, but when you export as alembic and import in 3ds max and then export as vrscene, and render in Vantage, it takes very long to go to the next frame, so renders gets long because of delay between rendering frames.
can you fix so that vantage supports heavy vertex deformation
thanks

[vladimir.nedev]

How long exactly ?
There should be a message in the log saying "Updating animated meshes and image sequences took xx seconds."
Do you have the .vrscene on a local hard drive or are you reading it from a network location or something like google drive ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[digital_technologies]

everythiing is saved in local drive.

[vladimir.nedev]

Can you send this scene to support so we can profile it and see if it's possible to optimize the performance ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[digital_technologies]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...EQ?usp=sharing

[digital_technologies]

Above I sent the scene of mangrove tree from speedtree. The way I created the vrscene is the following:
I exported from speedtree as allembic, I imported alembic in max as vray proxy and exported the vray proxy as vrscene. This is a very nice workflow cuase the vrscene file is extremely light.
hope you find a way to help. if you wnat delete 2 of the three trees but still will be very slow to update mesh

[vladimir.nedev]

Do you know about the ply2vrmesh tool that comes with V-Ray ?
You can use it to convert abc files to vrmesh files, which might be faster to load in V-Ray/Vantage.
If you don't have time to try it, we will try it here and report back what's the improvement in load times.

Greetings,
Vladmir Nedev

[digital_technologies]

Dear Vladimir
Thank you very much for your suggestion. I will try it. I am not sure though I made clear what is the problem I am facing.
the first time you load the vrscene to vantage it loads very fast. Problem comes when you start renderign the animation, or every time you hit play on the animation timeline, it takes around 8 sec to update the vertex deformation channges of the tree.

[digital_technologies]

Dear Vladimir
CAn you please help me a bit with ply2vrmesh for 3ds max,
There is no enough support online for this.

[npg]

https://docs.chaos.com/display/VMAX/...mesh+converter