Instance a graph/ multiple graphs in scene; 100+

[ZachGray]

Are there any optimizations for multiple identical graphs in a scene? Creation, saving, and loading are all quite slow, and the compounds are bloating the save files. 

I'm importing a curve using  curveInfo>points and using @mjcg91 's curve framing compounds to export a array of matrices. The maya scene has a changing number of inputs and a custom up vector, so having multiple inputs and outputs will be very difficult to manage.

Thanks!

Zach

[mjcg91 · Accepted solution]

When having a lot of graphs in a single scene, the key is to have a referenced compound inside, and have only this compound connected to your inputs / outputs. This greatly reduces the size and save / load time of Maya scene files.

[ZachGray]

Thank you. That note took the scene from 185MB to 3.5MB.

Creation is a little faster, but still slow to spin up the graph.

For future readers, saving a graph to your library includes all the nodes, while saving a compound to your library allows a reference.