V2 beta Jan-19-2009 available now

 From:  Michael Gibson
2333.2 In reply to 2333.1 
It would be great to get some timing benchmarks of the new meshing speed!

If you have a heavier model that previously took quite a while to save to a mesh, if you could take 3 different benchmarks that would help to gather some information.

One measurement on version 1.0, one measurement with the new Jan-19 v2 beta, and if you have multi-core then one measurement with a setting in moi.ini edited to limit to it to only 1 CPU core would be helpful.

That final one will help me to see how well it is scaling across CPU cores on some different people's machines.

The moi.ini setting for limiting it to only 1 CPU core is:

[Mesh Export]
ThreadLimit=

Set that to ThreadLimit=1 to limit it to 1 CPU core

Close down MoI first before editing moi.ini and the moi.ini file can be found in WinXP here: C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Application Data\Moi\moi.ini


Then after you're done set it back to a blank thread limit again to get back to full performance.


Some other notes - previously the meshing dialog would be frozen when it first appeared and you could only adjust settings after the initial mesh was finished being calculated. This is no longer the case, you can adjust settings and the current mesh job will automatically be canceled and a new job started with your new settings. Also I've removed the "Update mesh" button, instead now any changes you make will be applied automatically.

There is a new progress bar for the meshing job in progress, which is shown in the upper-right area of the main window underneath where the points and polygon count readouts are at.

- Michael