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tdlmake process?

marblemarble Posts: 7,500
in Daz Studio Discussion

Whenever I start up DAZ Studio I notice the fans on my Mac come on for a few minutes. I got curious taday and checked while the fans were still busy and I could see the process tdlmake was consuming 98% CPU time. Then it suddenly stopped. Is this normal and what does it do? I always thought it was a 3Delight process but I rarely use 3DL these days - I use Luxrender mostly. Besides, I wasn't rendering anything at the time.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    The problem with Reality, Octane and even Iray is that most things will load 3Delight materials first.  That can trigger tdlmake to run.  A full Iray converted scene that starts with Studio in Iray mode, probably won't trigger it...but just about everything else does.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    OK - so it runs even before the render starts. I do use 3DL materials with Reality so that would explain it. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,436

    TDLMake will run in the background if the render engine is set to 3Delight.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500

    I guess that, if I am not using 3Delight (although I'm using 3DL materials) I could leave the render engine on OpenGL. Right?

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Yes...that should stop it.

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,436

    Or Iray

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