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16th December 2019, 12:43 PM | #1 |
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Re: Worth getting AC3D?
Hi Ulri,
We advise businesses to purchase a commercial license, since it is attached to the business, rather then a named user (and therefore handles staff changes better). Commercial licenses also include multi-users and server compatibility i.e install once, use on any client, which you may want. There is no restriction on what you do with files generated from AC3D, whatever license you have. All updates/new-versions are free for one year after purchase, i.e. regardless of version number. Msmooth in 3DS looks like subdivision-surfaces. In AC3D, make a Mesh object and press "Subdivide" in the tool bar, a couple of times. Then manipulate the vertices. Shaders - if you mean OpenGL shaders, there is no support in AC3D. If you mean normals/shading then that is all calculated automatically in AC3D. Last edited by Andy; 16th December 2019 at 12:53 PM. |
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I have taken a look at the normandy project from objects library and after import it seems extremly laggy and i have built meshes bigger than this with other software, is there some sort of settings to make it less laggier? i can't work with 2 fps. I have never seen a 3d modelling software not beeing able to handle that low amount of verticies. |
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16th December 2019, 02:29 PM | #3 |
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That sounds very slow. My old laptop handles it fine. Ensure your graphics drivers are up-to-date.
There's a lot you can do, of course the render speed depends on your graphics card and processor. Depending on your graphics card, you may find it faster if you switch off textures (press 't'). Also, if you press the eye icon (top right of each view window), that will switch off all the editing lines, saving quite a bit of render time. You can also switch 2D/3D views to interactive-wireframe (main menus) which will switch to wireframe when manipulating. Also, you can hide or lock different parts of a large scene (bottom right expanding section of left control panel). This is very handy when "walking" around a large scene (i.e. walk-mode in a 3D view) e.g. a large airport model. The biggest speed saving is probably to to switch to a single view (press space to max/min current). that saves rendering 4 views at once. |
16th December 2019, 04:05 PM | #4 | |
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GPU is a 1050TI and cpu is amd athlehon 860k and both 3dsmax and blender renders at over 300 fps with the same settings and same mesh while AC3D renders at 2fps. GPU is up to date but will check agen and try and downgrade to lower version and see if there is any mess with ac3d and latest. Tried with my old laptop wich only has a buitl inn gpu but it lagged even more so it crashed. In viewport at 35K vertitices the viewport starts to lagg alot this is not good at all. and this is not render but viewport as a single viewport Last edited by Spkier; 16th December 2019 at 06:32 PM. |
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17th December 2019, 06:59 AM | #5 |
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I think I have the 1050 (non ti) card on my main PC and that's very smooth/fast with the large Normandy model.
AC3D may not be using your graphics card - check the console when it starts. You can make it stay open with File->Settings->Advanced-show-windows-console. Let us know what you find. |
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17th December 2019, 07:47 AM | #7 |
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Here is what the console says with a model with 65K verts i made in blender
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