ironsoul posted at 9:31AM Fri, 03 April 2020 - #4385183

If its possible to modify the geometry via Poser API it would be interesting to see if modifying the source prop used in the geometry swap also modifies all the instances.

I've asked Ken1171 over at Hivewire if he can try this, although he's not using geometry swapping, just Python.

3dcheapskate posted at ?:??AM ???, ?? ??? 2020 - #4385188

Correct, I used File > Import > Wavefront OBJ - so that would be similar to loading a PP2 with embedded geometry ? Not what I'd intended.

To make my test valid I need to do File > Import > Wavefront OBJ, save that as a PP2, remove the embedded geometry from the PP2, and point the PP2 to an external geometry instead.Then I can load the PP2 and Edit > Duplicate, and that should give more meaningful results.

Tried that yesterday. Still got big numbers for the 2nd/3rd figures (Empty scene=285MB, 1 figure from PP2 (ext geom)=505, 2nd (Edit>Duplicate)=697, 3rd(duplicate)=889,4th (duplicate)=1150. I accidentally closed windows Task Managerat this point. When I reopened it it showed Poser's memory use at around 400MB.

I don't trust Windows Task Manager at all now.

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And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

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