even with very less mesh file size is huge!

[prateekvishwa]

Hello All,
I am doing a floor plan & suddenly my file became very heavy.. file saving & opening time also become very high.. I noticed my file which includes only few extrude lines & minimalistic furniture is saved as 435 mb! whereas my other files with similar stuff is not more than 40mb in size. To solve problem i started deleting inside stuff one by one & i keep saving file after every delete.. strange but true that even after deleting everything in the file( empty file) my file size is 375 mb! & PF usage is 6gb! i my trying to import everything from this file to new file but 3dsmax hanging.. im stuck.. any solution guys other than redoing everything?

[Deflaminis]

Doesn't really seem like a vray problem, but do you have a bunch of turbosmooths on objects? Setting those to render iterations instead of viewport/regular iterations can reduce your filesize by 4x in some cases. (Even more for iterations above 1 or 2). Usually this is the culprit to a bit scene like this, but rig data can also chew up a fairly large amount of space.

PF usage? Particle flow? Must be some complicated networks in there. You might just try merging everything into a new scene, it's the age old "fix all" when a scene gets crazy. (And they do.)

[prateekvishwa]

Doesn't really seem like a vray problem, but do you have a bunch of turbosmooths on objects? Setting those to render iterations instead of viewport/regular iterations can reduce your filesize by 4x in some cases. (Even more for iterations above 1 or 2). Usually this is the culprit to a bit scene like this, but rig data can also chew up a fairly large amount of space.

PF usage? Particle flow? Must be some complicated networks in there. You might just try merging everything into a new scene, it's the age old "fix all" when a scene gets crazy. (And they do.)

Hey thanks but as i said i slowly slowly deleted each & every object in my file.. my file is empty now but still on saving empty file itself is of 375 mb! PF usage as in task manager pf usage.. i tried merging everything to new file but 3ds max hanging..

[skogskalle]

Sometimes Max just does weird stuff. I have no idea whats causing your problem, but if the merge-thing doesnt work maybe you could try selecting all objects you want to keep, all lights/cameras etc and use "save selected" and save it to a new file. This has saved me before when a file starts acting weird. (havent had your problem though so not sure if it will help)
k

[MoonDoggie]

Make sure you don't have any residual Physics calculations in the scene. I remember a while back when (it took a while to figure it out) the physics engine cached some data people had empty scenes with 300+mb in them. It's probably cached something...

[prateekvishwa]

ahh i see.. but how to check for this? i closed & restarted max & computer still same issue even with empty file.. so i am not sure cache remains even after restarting. I have redone every thing so nothing to worry but still curious to know what was the reason behind this.. i am afraid if this will ever happen to some bigger project where redoing is not possible...

[prateekvishwa]

Sometimes Max just does weird stuff. I have no idea whats causing your problem, but if the merge-thing doesnt work maybe you could try selecting all objects you want to keep, all lights/cameras etc and use "save selected" and save it to a new file. This has saved me before when a file starts acting weird. (havent had your problem though so not sure if it will help)
k

in the emptyfile i made a box, thn i save selected this box.. guess what..this poor box got saved as a file with 375 mb! mysterious max..

[jacksc02]

I think there is something on "the area" about this.
If you can't find anything about it I have a maxscript that might work but its only to be used as a last resort

[prateekvishwa]

I think there is something on "the area" about this.
If you can't find anything about it I have a maxscript that might work but its only to be used as a last resort

I already have redone everything so nothing to worry but out of curiosity i dont mind trying your script

[jacksc02]

what version of max are you using?

[prateekvishwa]

i am using 3dsmax 2011

[MoonDoggie]

did you do any calculations with the physics stuff?

[prateekvishwa]

did you do any calculations with the physics stuff?

naa nothing.. here is the floor plan which i was trying to do..

[Neilg]

Go to utilities, click on the reactor tab, go to collisions and clear them.

if you merge anything from that file (material/object) it'll bring all the collisions with it again. and again, every time you do it. if you've done a lot of merging from infected files it can build up and spread pretty easily.

[leo.surrealismo]

use this command:
deleteTrackViewController trackviewnodes TrackViewNodes.Max_MotionClip_Manager