speed tricks for 3d vegetation

[Candelero]

Yeah i dont know EXACTLY who those 2 things work in terms of memory usage. So I wont comment in the case that im off track.

Someone else will pipe in and set you straight tho

In short, they may speed up your rendering, due to RAM usage.

Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[Karol.Osinski]

Vray proxys slows down rendering... its a known fact.
They are there to lower memory limits by only loading in the geometry that is needed at that specfic time in the render.

They are most definitly slower.

I did it the other day with a bunch of poly trees... 7million polys in total i think, 19mins with proxy and 9mins with geometry.

That's interesting, somewhere else I have read that V-Ray can load proxies faster, therefore tenders them faster. I gotta make some testing too. Maybe having slower viewport and much longer save / loading times would be a worth trade-off for faster render times.

[^Lele^]

Karol.Osinski the post you quote above is from 2006: things changed a bit since then.
By all means, however, do test, and also feel free to read here to know what to expect in term of functionalities and performance.

[Karol.Osinski]

Thanks ^Lele^ hahha, I didn't notice the date. Thanks for your response

[^Lele^]

Hey, that DaForce guy is someone i had loads of silly fun with, and would dearly love to have back with us.
Alas, he's probably having fun tuning his cars now...