*SOLVED* Some Genesis 2 Female characters taking a very long time to save in DAZ 4.7
Visuimag
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Hey there, maybe someone can help me. It seems like, of late, some of my Genesis 2 Female characters are taking forever to save. It seems to happen on characters that I once used and try to modify, but not on newer Genesis 2 Female characters or any other Genesis figures. I'm talking scenes and scene subsets. I've tried a bunch of different things and nothing has worked. Some advice/insight would be great! Thank you to anyone that can chime in!
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Anyone? I know somebody out there must have seen this issue before!
Alright, in case anyone does help out, I think I've narrowed part of the problem. The files that are in question are saving at nearly 2GB. Most of my older files aren't much larger than 100MB. Now to phase 2, why are these files so large?!!
Do you happen to use Reality?
Do you happen to use Reality?
Nope.
Whatever this issue is, it's getting worse. A lot worse. I just saved a scene subset (a specific Genesis 2 Female charcater with clothes/hair/props) and it was a whopping 6.56GB. I truly am confused, here.
It sounds as if you have modified the assets in some way (loaded a morph or UV set, for example), or tweaked the weight maps and not saved it as an asset) so the data is being embedded in the scene file. It could also be related to some kind of content-creation tool, though I don't think either Look at My Hair or Garibaldi Express embed much in the scene.
Funnily enough, I do have some custom UVs. Custom jpg textures for clothes, too. Issue is, I wouldn't know where to begin.
Textures are always stored externally, but custom UVs might well be adding data to the file - they should all be written to an Auto folder in the Data folder, but at least at one time they were embedded in the scene file.
An Auto folder? I'm assuming I must create it? Also, this problem, so far, seems exclusive to Genesis 2 Female characters. Also, would clearing My Library folder, and then re-installing, perhaps clear it up?
No, in theory I thought that when it finds an asset that hasn't been saved DS auto-saves it to the Data folder - but I may well be misremembering. Try loading your custom UV set on a new G2F and see if that generates a larger than expect scene.
Before I do that, I'll just tell you that I added an entirely new UV to one of the character culprits and this still happened. Also, I just recently started using the PushModifier. Could that be an issue? Thank you for trying to help me with this, btw. I about pulled my hair out, because I thought nobody would understand this particular issue.
Having looked at previous file sizes versus file sizes I create today, it's night and day. Before, the majority of my character subsets ranged from 13-80MB. Now, my lowest ones easily hit over 100MB. So obviously, it's a bigger problem than just Genesis 2 Female.
It's not that you've turned compression off in the save options? Have you added any new plug-ins?
In regards to the compression, I don't believe so. As for plug-ins, nope. In fact, I deleted GenX2 since I was having another issue (scenes taking upwards of 45 seconds to a minute to clear). Deleting that seems to have fixed that issue.
Alright, so apparently, files WERE uncompressed. However, I'm still see files being written bigger than before. For example, in March (on a different solid state drive, mind you) I saved a scene subset at 44MB. Today, that same, exact, subset now comes in at 209.6MB. Somehow, somewhere, still, something is causing my files to get bigger. Definitely bigger than they should be, and thus, they take longer to save. Not quite as long as before I discovered that my files weren't being compressed, but certainly longer than they should take.
Alright, Richard, I think I've finally got it. I believe, in addition to compression being off, one of my hairs was giving me an issue. Not sure what happened between saves from one computer to the next, but every time I used this hair, with or without compression on, files were saving far bigger than they should be. Without that hair, I can now save files as I normally would, with none of them ever going over 150MB. Thank you for all of your assistance and I'll let ya know if anything else turns up!