Speed up photometric lights

[Morne]

Is there a way to speed up max photometric lights? I have a scene made up of a bunch of xrefs and there's no time to convert each scene/light.

Rendering as is, is taking forever on the "preparing lights" part, before it even thinks of starting to render. I can't use the scene converter as there's xref's. Also, I don't want anything else converted.

[White Wizard]

Is there a way to speed up max photometric lights? I have a scene made up of a bunch of xrefs and there's no time to convert each scene/light.

Rendering as is, is taking forever on the "preparing lights" part, before it even thinks of starting to render. I can't use the scene converter as there's xref's. Also, I don't want anything else converted.

I've been having difficulty with xreffed lights and my method is to merge all xref objects into the scene before render (make sure you don't save the file after this). I've been searching for a way to script xrefmerge with my batch render plugin but I can't seem to get the maxscript command to function properly and autodesk support hasn't been of much help either.

Merging and converting in a simple batch process would be my suggestion. Of course this method is pretty time consuming if you're not ready for a final render and just want to be able to tweak. Hopefully my suggestion can provide at least inspiration for a better idea.

[Morne]

I used the scene converter on all the xrefs now, but it is already still taking more than 30 minutes just to "preparing lights (PhotometricLight1, 2 ,3 etc)"

[Morne]

I cancelled it after an hour or preparing lights.

Any tips for optomising Photometric lights to perpare faster? Things like shadow type etc? (These are non-web photometric lights)

[Morne]

Changed them all to VRayShadowMap and then there's no delay

[AndresAhumada]

I worke in retail, visualization area.

I tended to change my workflow for this. The IES lights are a disaster to illuminate the scene and when you add about 50 lights is painfully slow.100% of the scenes are with artificial lights. So working with IES is a problem.Previously ask how could improve the efficiency of this type of lighting and the truth is the same as always. The only notable improvement was the fireflies reduction.


Cheers