[x3d-public] System overload issues?

doug sanden highaspirations at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 1 13:28:47 PDT 2015


Have you tried vivaty studio or whtie_dune for editing?
http://www.web3d.org/projects/vivaty-studio
white_dune URL http://wdune.ourproject.org/
Do you have a link to your big file?
-Doug

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> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 22:07:19 +0200
> From: anthony.judge at gmail.com
> To: brutzman at nps.edu
> CC: x3d-public at web3d.org
> Subject: Re: [x3d-public] System overload issues?
>
> Don, I do appreciate that my cube animation works on multiple players.
>
> My point is that it is 40k and poses no editing problems. The project
> on which I am working in parallel is about 600k. It also manipulates
> reasonably well with H3DViewer and Cortona -- and XJ3d, when I use it.
>
> My problem is editing the larger project, even in my experiments with
> the Navigation panel as you suggest. Typically I can make a few minor
> edits and then CPU usage goes through the roof and I have to set it
> aside for 5 minutes.I note that it is the Java Platform SE binary
> which consumes up to 50% CPU -- before going through the roof. I had
> assumed that this had something to do with Xj3D
>
> So the question is what are the reasonable constraints on project
> size? I do appreciate your comment about fine tuning.laptops and have
> little desire to mess with that.
>
> Tony
>
> On 01/09/2015, Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:
>> Given so many great strides in graphics hardware and software optimization,
>> I don't recommend tuning your scene or software further for performance.
>>
>> Laptop performance result this morning: 7 independent X3D players animated
>> your scene without hesitation simultaneously, each running at full frame
>> rates.
>>
>> OBTW attached is an eighth player screenshot. I used the X3DOM export
>> button in the author workflow and immediately saw an X3DOM version version
>> working. 8)
>>
>> Of related interest: recently added capability to launch multiple external
>> X3D authoring tools as well. So you could use X3D-Edit as a "control center"
>> of sorts to validate and test while comparing other tools.
>>
>> http://web3d.org/pipermail/x3d-public_web3d.org/2015-August/003586.html
>> https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/images/EditSavedSceneInExternalEditor.png
>> https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/images/X3D-EditPreferencesX3dAuthoringTools.png
>>
>>
>> ... So looking "closer to home" at your computer's configuration - such as
>> memory, sufficient unused disk space, etc. - may be much simpler and
>> productive for you.
>>
>> If indeed you think there are interactions with X3D-Edit and Xj3D then will
>> be happy to follow up. If using the X3D-Edit standalone application, you
>> might compare it with Netbeans running X3D-Edit as a plugin. If performance
>> differs, then likely you have isolated a bug for us to look at further.
>>
>> Classic pitfall in debugging is optimizing the wrong thing, so beware:
>>
>> a. Person drops and loses keys in parking lot.
>> b. Goes back to search that night, looks all around the lights.
>> c. "Why are you looking there?"
>> d. "Because that is where I can see best."
>>
>> YMMV. Have fun with X3D!
>>
>> all the best, Don
>> --
>> Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman at nps.edu
>> Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149
>> X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman
>>
>
>
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