I just gave a quick look at the KB articles and wiki, didn't see anything, but I am looking for info on how to setup/configure softimage and my computer to better improve performance.
I am experiencing frequent hangs'.
The last one was from a (http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2009/10 ... f-samples/)
known issue.
I am asking because I have found this happens often from seemingly unconnected scenerios.
If anyone would point me in the right direction for setup hints, configuration settings etc.
for paging files, cache, ram, (performance) etc....
I would appreciate it.
additionally,
I wonder what one is left to do in the case of the above problem, AO samples 0, because they need to be set to 0 for the AO parameter in the render settings to apply.
When ambient occlusion is enabled, and the Number of samples is set to 0.0 in the XSI Ambient Occlusion Shader, then Rays is the value used for the number of rays to cast when computing the ambient occlusion at the current shading point. As long as the ambient occlusion shader has its Number of samples set to a positive non-zero value, then the Rays value is ignored.
Thanks,
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