Slow "Loading bitmaps and updating object"

[flat]

There was progress on this problem.

This problem occurs when log output destination is "c:\VRayLog.txt"(V-Ray2.x default), log can not be written to Drive C:\ with Windows UAC etc.

Changing the Log output destination to another drive will not cause problems.

Please improve so that the output to VRayLog does not affect the rendering process.

[vlado]

The default location for the log file has been changed a (very) long time ago to be the temporary folder for the current user. If your clients are using old presets or old maxstart.max files, they should update them. I would NOT recommend writing the log to c:\vraylog.txt

Best regards,
Vlado

[flat]

When reading old VRay scenes, it may be better to replace the log output destination with %temp%.

thanx

[arcfx]

Wow, glad I read till the end. This changed my load time from half hour to 30 seconds, lol. This would be a great option to ask to reset to "%temp%" on old Vray scenes.

[yeeha68]

I have been fighting this for days. Unknown to me, my old default file was using c:\VRayLog.txt. This was never an issue up to v3.4, but after that all older files need to be changed to %TEMP%. And I should point out that after changing the path you need to save the file and restart Max to reset the temp variable. I very much agree on an option to reset %TEMP% when older file is detected. Maybe a simple line we could type into the listener and write a quick menu item to run it.