High Memory Usage - Soft8Soft

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2018-12-17 at 10:18 am #9958

JillR
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Hello,

I’ve made a test case for a configurator and everything works as I want it to, but I’ve noticed that when I run my configurator Chrome’s memory usage skyrockets.

All parts of my configurable object have a base material applied to them which then have a layer of details applied over them using masks. I use 3Ds Max so I do this by using a Mix node to mix my base material with a single colour using a black and white mask. I have 5 of these masks in my scene and they are all about 60 to 80 kB in size and a power of 2.

When I just use the base material Chrome uses about 1.000 MB max but when I add the additional details it goes up to about 3.500 MB, which seems excessive.

2018-12-17 at 10:44 am #9962

Yuri Kovelenov
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Hi,

Can you attach here an example file for us to check? thanks!

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2018-12-17 at 1:45 pm #9969

JillR
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I’ve sent the project via email.

2018-12-17 at 2:18 pm #9971

Yuri Kovelenov
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Hi again,

It appears you’re using very big images in your scene – I counted several 8k textures besides others. While their file size is moderate, they occupy a lot of memory when they are loaded.

Checkout out this guide on how you can optimize your images: https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/introduction/Workflow.html#Image_Formats_and_Resolution

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2018-12-18 at 8:41 am #9998

JillR
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Hello,

Thank you for the reply. I simply tried to use the assets as we have them and use in other software. I’ll try and see how I can best optimize everything.
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