Keep proxies in memory?

[LudvikKoutny]

Hi,

is there any way to keep Vray proxies, or even entire scene geometry in the memory between renders? I have a few high poly proxies, that are being stored on a network drive so all render slaves can access it when needed. While LAN is quite fast, it is still not nearly fast as local drive so every time i do a test render, it takes about 20 seconds for proxy geometry to load from network drive. And as i do shading and lighting, i do a lot of test renders, so this eats a lot of time. Mental Ray has something called Geometry cache, so i really believe Vray has something like that as well.

[vlado]

We don't have this right now. Though if you are using DR with V-Ray 3.0, you can turn on the automatic assets transfer feature, which will cache the proxy locally on the render servers.

Best regards,
Vlado

[LudvikKoutny]

We don't have this right now. Though if you are using DR with V-Ray 3.0, you can turn on the automatic assets transfer feature, which will cache the proxy locally on the render servers.

Best regards,
Vlado

Heh, we are waiting for 3.0 to be released, because it should be any moment. It takes a while to deploy it on all render nodes, so it would be a pain to get all that work done with beta version, and then have to do it again a few days later when retail 3.0 gets released. So i hope it will be out soon