arrow1 opened this issue on Nov 15, 2014 ยท 18 posts
aeilkema posted Sun, 16 November 2014 at 8:23 AM
The honest answer is no, but no one will give that to you. The new machine will not improve your Vue 11 experience at all. Why not? Because Vue simply isn't made for animation. Yes, Vue has some animation additions, but in my opinion those are really gimmicks and for amateur animation. Now no one will tell you this and pretty soon I've got people jumping on me for saying something like this. Think about it..... everyone that does quality animation with Vue items, will not do the animation itself in Vue. Most Vue animations projects aren't that good and most animators and studios export Vue scenes to more animation capable applications. Vue's rendering system is really made for still images.
Getting a new machine may improve your Vue experience somewhat, but not as you would expect it to do. You're simply using the wrong tool for animation, The graphics card you have is more then fine for Vue and a new one will not improve your experience. The 6 core will give some added speed in rendering, but it will not give you what you hope for. 64Gb may help you, but it is doubtfull that your current scene even uses a lot of the 16Gb you have now (easy to check with Task Manager), so check that first. If your scene only uses a few Gb of Ram, anything above the 16Gb will not help you then.
Again.... it's not your computer, it's your animation project that's the problem. Instead of spending lot's of money on a new computer that will not solve your problems, you may want to spent the money on an application that can handle animation projects well and import Vue scenes.
Having said that.... now unto the next issue. 3D animation needs a lot of CPU. Aside from the Vue problems mentioned above, whatever 3D applications you pick to animate, it will need CPU (unless it's GPU based of course)..... lot's of CPU. Most people that do 3D animation throw some serious CPU power at it. 12 cores, 24 cores, more cores you name it. If you don't have that kind of power, expect long rendering times. You'd have to ask yourself if that's worth it. I really would love to take on a animation project. I've got 2 i7's, a i5 and 2 dual cores networked, but I'm not even going to attempt animation with that. Now enough CPU power to do something decent.
Sorry, I know, bad news. What would be interesting is to research GPU based animation. See if there is something that can use Vue scenes in GPU animation. That may offer a solution for you.
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