Taking forever "transforming verts"

[smashley]

We have a scene with quite a few point cached objects 50-90 and vray seems to take forever "transforming verts" before it even starts to render. Is there any way to speed up this process (without using vray proxies)?

thanks,

-chad

[smashley]

I'm beginning to think it has something to do with the multiple point cached objects in the scene.

[smashley]

It seems that when you have many copies of an object with a point cache modifier on them, even though they may all read the same point cache file, max still blips on every single one of them during the pre-render stage. Insanely long "transforming vertex" times. This happens with both vray and scanline. btw, 3ds max 2013 sp5

[joconnell]

It could be something totally different, but I found using the XML file format for point cache was ridiculously slow to render with, if you change to pc2 instead it's far better. Might be an ascii / binary thing but it's worth a look!

[smashley]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot

[vlado]

Are you using distributed rendering?

Best regards,
Vlado