Hello,
I was wondering why the GUI takes so long to open. I have to wait approx 7 sec for the GUI to open (and refresh? it’s blinking a few secs before being available). Is it searching for something via network or the like? If yes, an we disable this? My pc is quite fast (dual xeon 5650)
What is strange also is that I often see in tutorials that most of the krakatoa users open their GUI faster than me while their config appears to be slower than mine.
Does someone know how to improve that? I found annoying that I have to wait 7 sec everytime I call the gui (and you sure do it a lot in when working on a krakatoa stuff)
Thank you
Hi!
You can open the Krakatoa Log and get the exact opening timing of the Krakatoa GUI.
When assigning Krakatoa as the renderer and opening the GUI for the first time, I get around 6 seconds.
Consequent opening of the GUI takes around 2.5 seconds here.
You can get even more info about what is going on by selecting Edit>Logging Level>Logging Debug in the Log Window’s menu.
On my system, I got the following:
PRG: -----11/10/2011 12:44:35 AM--------------------------
PRG:
DBG: FN OpenGUI() called with initOnly:false
PRG:
PRG: -----11/10/2011 12:44:36 AM--------------------------
PRG: >Opening Krakatoa GUI...
DBG: +Created Krakatoa GUI Floater At Last Position Stored In Renderer.
DBG: +Shader Parameters Rollout ROLLED DOWN.
DBG: +Added 'Shader Parameters' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Added 'Global Render Values' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Global Render Values' took 209ms.
DBG: +Main Controls Rollout ROLLED DOWN.
DBG: +Main Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Main Controls' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Main Controls' took 617ms.
DBG: +Save Particles Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Save Particles' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Save Particles' took 362ms.
DBG: +Partitioning Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Partitioning' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Partitioning' took 383ms.
DBG: +Memory Channels Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Memory Channels' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Memory Channels' took 173ms.
DBG: +Matte Objects Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Matte Objects' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Matte Objects' took 222ms.
DBG: +Ambient PME Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Ambient PME' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Ambient PME' took 237ms.
DBG: +Presets Rollout OPENED.
DBG: +Added 'Presets and History' Rollout to Krakatoa GUI Floater.
DBG: +Processing 'Presets and History' took 238ms.
DBG: >Setting System Limit of all Particle Flow Emitters to 100 Million Particles...
DBG: -No Particle Flow Emitters found.
PRG: +Krakatoa GUI Floater OPENED in 2784ms.
DBG: >FN OpenGUI() Ended.
Can you post your results so I can take a look?
Also, are you opening the Krakatoa GUI via the Krakatoa Menu, Krakatoa Toolbar icons, or via the Render Dialog’s big button?
well, the problem was resolved before I read your reply and the gui now opens as normal, as fast as yours approx.
It seems due to the fact I set the VFB extensions to be load at startup, they were disabled and probably the interface gui was suffering from something related to that…
Thank you again