Hi,
Why are there 3 placeholder layers? Are they useful except for mess?
Thanks!
Why so many placeholder layers?
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They are useful beyond “mess”, yes.
Adding new sublayers is expensive (sometimes taking several seconds to create), so Solaris maintains a “buffer” of placeholder layers that can be repurposed as and when new layers are created while you're working. This way, the number of times you incur the new layer overhead is reduced substantially. This speeds up general fluidity during scene building.
Adding new sublayers is expensive (sometimes taking several seconds to create), so Solaris maintains a “buffer” of placeholder layers that can be repurposed as and when new layers are created while you're working. This way, the number of times you incur the new layer overhead is reduced substantially. This speeds up general fluidity during scene building.
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They are useful beyond “mess”, yes.
Adding new sublayers is expensive (sometimes taking several seconds to create), so Solaris maintains a “buffer” of placeholder layers that can be repurposed as and when new layers are created while you're working. This way, the number of times you incur the new layer overhead is reduced substantially. This speeds up general fluidity during scene building.
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It should be better for hiding these cache layers.
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We went the other way and made them not show up ever. We decided it isn't worth providing an option. The only time their presence would have any effect is if there is a bug in Houdini. But I believe this change was applied to 19.0... Are you still seeing these placeholder layers in a recent build of 19?
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We went the other way and made them not show up ever. We decided it isn't worth providing an option. The only time their presence would have any effect is if there is a bug in Houdini. But I believe this change was applied to 19.0... Are you still seeing these placeholder layers in a recent build of 19?
Yes I am. I'm using v19.0.455
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