Performance test with 3D trees

Bogdan · Oct 20th 2017

Hello,

I tested Evermotion trees inserted as linked blocks in Rhino.

Enscape becomes very slow and Rhino becomes unresponsive from time to time.

And I only have 6 instances as you can see in my image.

I have a Quadro k2000/ Xeon E3-1270 @ 3.50GHz

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Jonathan Knoefel · Oct 20th 2017

Bogdan These trees are high poly and not optimized for real-time rendering. And your K2000 is quite old and not prepared for real-time rendering by design.

I would recommend you to upgrade to a GTX 1080 (Ti) which provides around 10 times the performance of the K2000 regarding real-time rendering.

Is Rhino unresponsive when you work inside Rhino with these trees?

Or when you switch back from Enscape into Rhino?

Herbo · Oct 20th 2017

The trees from evermotion are probably really high-poly models, and the quadro k2000 is a pretty slow graphics card (especially for real time rendering like enscape)... so it seems quite reasonable that you experience some poor performance.
the xeon e3 1270 is a bit old as well, but it shouldn't be the main problem here...

Bogdan · Oct 23rd 2017

Hello Jonathan, Herbo.

You were right about the k2000, it's really slow. I tested on 940M, on my small surface book and it works a lot better!

Camera movements were fluent even with 25 trees. It started to slow down when I added up to 50.

Rhino 5 though handled the meshes a lot worse even in wireframe mode.

Do you have any plans to introduce proxy objects to speed up things even more?

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Thomas Willberger · Oct 24th 2017

Yes, proxies will be included in the next release version. It's already released as an alpha.

Bogdan · Oct 24th 2017

Super!

Simon Weinberger · Oct 26th 2017

Before anyone get's excited, let's be precise. Proxies are currently available in the preview version of Enscape for SketchUp - and will be included in the next official release. There is no such feature for Rhino yet - and probably won't be for the next official release.

Bogdan · Mar 14th 2018

Hi Simon Weinberger ,

May I ask if there's any update on proxies for Rhino? Or if there's anything scheduled for them?

It's hard to do vegetation without them...

Thanks!

Simon Weinberger · Mar 14th 2018

Bogdan There are no news on this front, I'm afraid.

Micha · Mar 14th 2018

Bogdan Maybe this trick helps you to keep the Rhino viewport responsive:

A few more general questions

Do you use Rhino 6?

Pieter · Mar 14th 2018

Quote from Bogdan

Hi Simon Weinberger ,

May I ask if there's any update on proxies for Rhino? Or if there's anything scheduled for them?

It's hard to do vegetation without them...

Thanks!

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@Bodgan: consider adding your vote to the roadmap idea for proxies for Revit and Rhino: https://trello.com/c/c8sr4eaB/91-load-proxies-from-file

Bogdan · Mar 16th 2018

Micha ,

Rhino 6 is an option to consider just because it handles complex geometry much faster than 5.

Even if I create a display mode in wireframe and use it for linked blocks (as suggested in "A few more general questions"), I still have a lot of wires. Using proxies is a lot more userfriendly, any Vray user knows that.

People suggested proxies for Rhino to the Rhino dev team a long time ago... maybe more that 5 years and it is on their tracklist but without any progress.

Pieter , I voted on the roadmap.... can't wait to render forests like in Crysis