Forum: Carrara


Subject: What makes carrara slow?

dethblud opened this issue on Oct 17, 2000 ยท 6 posts


dethblud posted Tue, 17 October 2000 at 1:26 PM

I've been working on setting up a really really simple scene in Cararra and for some reason it's slowing Carrara to an absolute crawl. I just finished a project that was 50 times as complicated and Carrara handled that one fine. In this scene I have 4 objects, 2 with pretty low polygon counts, and 2 with polygon counts that are on the high end of medium. I have basic Carrara shaders on 2 of the objects, both without any texture maps, and medium sized texture maps on the other 2. The lighting is pretty simple, and I have no effects in the scene. I am at a loss to figure out why my Carrara is being so slow. I even closed the project, rebooted, and opened it again, to find it being just as slow as before. Carrara is taking about a full minute to do anything I tell it. If I click in a checkbox it gets the checkmark a minute later. I also know it's not lack of memory (I have 256 megs) and it's not other programs eating resources, because I closed everything that was running. Any suggestions of things I could check to make Carrara not be so slow?