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Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:58 pm
by zeitmeister
Hey,
working with really big textures (8000x24000) tremendeosly slows down working with Indigo in C4D.
Could you please implement some sort of "activate/deactivate material preview render" checkbox somewhere?
The auto refresh of these indigo materials lasts way too long...
is something possible?
Or might be a way linking to an alternative, emtpy material preview scene?
Something has to happen here.

Thanks for your answer!


Cheers, David

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:43 pm
by ritter
Moin Zeiti

Maybe "xsTextureSwitch" is what you need.

Check your mail.

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:28 am
by zeitmeister
Thank you,

but this doesn't help.
What I want is to prevent Cindigo to render in the material editor, and in the attribute manager... the material previews.

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:42 am
by CTZn
Sorry to interrupt with something different guys, but how about a per texture subsampling tag for preview ? 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc. Wouldn't that save performances while allowing for faster previews ? Plus, this doesn't exclude a switch.

Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:27 am
by zeitmeister
I presume that simply the export to the material preview scene takes too much time, so I would prefer to interrupt that.

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:38 am
by Zom-B
Simply adding a 4th setting for preview quality:
- high
- medium
- low
- off

Should be the easiest way to implement that :)

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:00 am
by CTZn
Oh, there's already a quality setting, fair enough :)

:arrow: :arrow:

Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:42 am
by zeitmeister
Off, I badly need Off!

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:46 am
by Zom-B
CTZn wrote:Oh, there's already a quality setting, fair enough :)
it is even to define per material, so the heavy guys can be set calm that way ;)

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:03 am
by CTZn
Zom-B wrote:
CTZn wrote:Oh, there's already a quality setting, fair enough :)
it is even to define per material, so the heavy guys can be set calm that way ;)
Great. I just realised that the 8k square PNG I rendered had a weight of 150MB (it's noisy), that may be one of the reason why I don't like texels much.

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:22 pm
by Zom-B
CTZn wrote:Great. I just realised that the 8k square PNG I rendered had a weight of 150MB (it's noisy), that may be one of the reason why I don't like texels much.
Loaded into Indigo it should even take 183,1MB, since textures get loaded as raw pixel data 8)

Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:54 pm
by zeitmeister
Off, Off, Off! :-)

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:06 pm
by CTZn
Texel black magic all the same.

Hold on, I think that zeiti is trying to say something :D

Re: Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:39 pm
by fused
zeitmeister wrote:Off, Off, Off! :-)
:)

Big request: optional disable texture rendering preview!

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:54 am
by zeitmeister
I need this in junction with the new shaders, especially thin SSS, so badly...
a job is waiting... :-)
please Yves, do your best like always!!