Proxy question

[rjw]

does using proxy elements speed up rendering or is it only to render otherwise unrenderable scenes which Max couldn't cope with?
I ask because I thought it would speed up render but am getting a slower performance with a test scene
Should I not bother use only for speed improvements or is it because it's a bad test case or bad settings?

Thanks,
Richard

[Da_elf]

nope. not to speed up. its as you say. it allows you to handle scenes that wouldnt usually be possible

[rjw]

thanks for the quick response.

[Morbid Angel]

da elf dont be so hasty to quote that speed is not a factor...
for example
my phone t610 model took about 3 minutes just to load into memory and took up to 2.5 gb of ram on render time. The actual rendering of it was fast.
But when I converted it to vray proxy, it loaded into memory lightining fast. So there you go.

[Da_elf]

hmm i guess in some cases its faster.