PhysCam Attributes - loading time ?

[bernhard]

Hi there,

when using the V-Phys Cam I am running into the following issue.

- I select the camera and set key frames on the "Specifiy Focus"
- I go into the Graph Editor to change the curves

When I select some tangents and want to change the curves... it takes forever to load .. what I mean is the following.

You select a tangent.. Maya takes 15 seconds to give the tangent free.. or basically speaking.. to respond... I move one tangent.. select another one.. and peng... again....
This is a very very big problem... since I need to control the camera tangents many times and super fast.

Anybody else having such issues ?
And if so... isn't there any way to change this ?

Maya 2011, Vray 1.5 latest available nightly built, Linux Fedora 64bit

Thx for any info

[milena.sarneva]

Hello,

We are aware of this problem and the reason is that there are a lot of attributes for the Physical Camera and Maya calls for update on every change of a keyframe, etc. And that rebuilds the whole AE with all (I think about 30) attributes. I haven't tried it with Linux and it only takes a couple of seconds with Win, so it is noticeable, but not as bad as you're experience it.
I tried different ways to go around Maya's update. I'll try again to figure out a way to help this during the next week.

Best regards,

Milena

[pechart]

I would give this a +1. It's espescially annoying if you have multiple cameras in your scene which you are animating.

[vlado]

Is it any faster if you close the atttribute editor?

Best regards,
Vlado

[bernhard]

Hi there..

it's really a big issue.. especially when changing the focus point, and doing camera animation and setting keyframes, which just needs to be done all the time.
It really doesn't matter the camera needs to be fluent, otherwise it's really a big pain.

Unfortunately, just closing the attribute editor is not changing anything - at least on my side.

Would be really great to fix that thing ...
thx and till later

[vlado]

It would be best if you can get us a scene where we can reproduce this; in our simple tests it works fairly quickly.

Best regards,
Vlado

[milena.sarneva]

It is a different issue then. If it was the one with refreshing all the attributes, closing the AE would have helped.
As Vlado said, scene would help a lot!