Bake Pivot: Slow performance

[trevor.adams]

(Copied from original User Voice forum)

"Please optimize the baking pivot command. It is very important and it should be integrated in the tool settings menu and marking menu for easy access. It take for ever to  bake pivot on high poly meshes. Say you want to orient the pivot on a 40k+ poly mesh, to snap to a face. You want that pivot to be the inherited object pivot from now on so you need to bake it down. The baking command take minutes to process. That is not acceptable. Please optimize that command for heavy meshes. Thanks."

[Anonymous]

The command is not multithreaded. Out of 28 threads available this command can only utilize one. This is infuriating.

[daniel_uppling]

I just tried this in the newly released Maya 2022. It's still crazy slow. Maybe you could add a feature that sends you an email when Maya is done baking the pivot...?

[DaveMay3D]

Bake pivot is so offensively slow it makes me wonder if it's written in python and being interpreted, on one core. Maya's development team is a lazy group for sure.

[DaveMay3D]

Time to switch to Blender.

[p0g0style]

Its so slow! How can this even a thing in 2021.

[singhs_apps]

I can confirm. Not sure why Bake pivot is so slow in Maya 

[Anonymous]

Yes, it's so horribly slow it makes it absolutely unusable. It's a disgrace for Autodesk and Maya.

[DaveMay3D]

The problem with embracing Python in an SDK is you start hiring Python programmers to add on to the core. Python programmers tend to be terrible at coding, which is why they use Python, and none if their work is ever multi-threaded.

If I were a technology director at Autodesk I would immediately give every Python programmer notice and hire back a few good senior developers with parallel programming mastery as a strike team to rebuild Maya's functionality. Then I'd phase out the abomination known as Mel, remove any Python code in Maya, and give users a better alternative.

.NET Core maybe. Something.