FPP with large proxies create long scene load times

[KO3272]

Hello,

We have been having some issues with FPP and corona proxies where our scenes become very slow to load.

Last night I did quite a bit of testing and found that there seems to be a limit in the amount of polys you can load into a single FPP to keep scene opening reasonable.

As an example - I had an FPP with 23Mil of polys (mesh mode) across 6 corona proxies. That single FPP took over 2 minutes to load. When I instantiated it took 20 seconds to load. When I reduced the amount of proxies equating to approx 6 million polys it took 30 seconds to load.

Are you aware of this and is this to be expected?

[Rokas]

Hi
we have done some testing as well and can confirm that corona proxy workflow is a bit slower than using vray proxies or regular mesh.

Scene. 6 trees, 4M each.


Growfx version  / With FP
303s / 350s to load

Just Mesh Version / With FP
8s / 44s to load

Just CoronaProxy / With FP
2s / 72s to load

Just CoronaProxy Version Full Mesh / With FP
32s / 79s to load

Just vrayProxy  / With FP
2s / 2s to load

Just vRayProxy Version Full Mesh / With FP
18s / 64s to load

Just Xref Version / With FP
10s / 47s to load

Delay is caused by reading the mesh of the proxy. It's needed to build the point-cloud and to calculate the proxy size.
V-Ray proxy is much faster because it returns an approximation (the same used for the viewport), not the full mesh.

We will contact corona team to inquire about possible solution.

[KO3272]

Hi Rokas,

That makes sense to what we are experiencing.

Thanks for the quick reply. We will instantiate any FPP's with large poly count trees until there is a solution.

[KO3272]

Hi Rokas,

Did you get a response from Corona team?

Also have you tried with Sini ProxSi?

We were thinking this could be a workaround in the short term.

Grant.