HEAVILY increased "preparing objects" latest ForestPack, Max 2021.1

[Morne]

Hi Guys

We're on Next, but have noticed an increase in scene preperation "updating instances" on heavy forestpack objects with plenty grass, trees, mulch etc. On a typical small test scene you dont notice this, but on all productions scenes you do.

For example we have a current project where it does a frame in 18 minutes, however only 8 minutes is actual rendering time! About 2 minutes is denoising and exporting render elements, so the scene takes almost longer to prepare than the actual render! It seems to get stuck on preparing forest objects.

It may be related to 2021.1, I can't remember this happening on 2019......

[^Lele^]

Vlado's working on a fix.

[Morne]

Vlado's working on a fix.

But isnt that thing he's working on related to 5?

Also, is this specific to forestpack or heavy scene objects in general, on Next as well as 5?

[^Lele^]

Oh, yes, you're right.
No, this has to be something else.
From my part, i had a few sorry crashes with FP recently, so maybe investigate if that could be the culprit (mismatched version?) in your setup.
I know you know where you can send us stuff too, so i won't mention it. Oh wait.