Hi Danny, I just like to mention if it may take me a while to get to something.

Otherwise what tends to happen is if I just say "I want to do that feature", people kind of append "for the next release" at the end of that automatically.

Then when the next release comes out they're sort of like "hey I thought this feature was going to be in this next release", and I'm like "well, I said I wanted to add it, but I didn't say it would happen right away", and they're like "Hmm, that's not what I remember...", and then I'm like "well, here I went back and dug up the discussion - here is the post where I said that I wanted to do it, notice it does not say when exactly", and they're like "oh ok", and then I'm like "hmm, maybe I better mention this more up front so that people won't assume that it will happen immediately"... :)

Mostly that's just to try and reduce extra discussion by providing more info up front, but in this case I guess it made for more discussion instead. I can't win! ;) ;)

- Michael

Hi Michael....

Why MoI V2 Beta take more than 5 minutes to boolean difference for the phone button ?
Is there any plan to improve this ?

Please find attached 3dm file.

My laptop configuration :

Hi Anis,

> Why MoI V2 Beta take more than 5 minutes to boolean
> difference for the phone button ?

Are you possibly running other CPU-intensive tasks on your machine at the same time?

I can't seem to repeat your problem over here - on my 5-year old system with a single 2.4GHz CPU, it takes 27 seconds to finish doing a Boolean Difference of all the buttons from the main phone body, using the Jan-19 v2 beta with the file you posted.

This system is pretty old now, and it was not even a high end machine at the time.

You may want to take a look at your system and make sure there isn't any bad software that may be running in the background taking up a lot of CPU time.

Another possibility is that your laptop may be running in a special "conserve power mode" where it runs at a slower CPU speed in order to prolong your battery life. You may want to plug in your laptop to a power source to possibly help avoid this.

- Michael

Hello Michael....

So the problem is not the software but my laptop yeah....
OK I will check what make it happen....

Thanks !!!

Hi Anis, maybe someone else will be able to test it on their machine and see if it also takes them such a long time.

But it seems strange that my old system finishes it 10 times faster than yours...

The booleans are a very CPU intensive calculation, so if you have other programs running in the background also taking a lot of CPU time, that could slow them down quite a bit. That's the main thing I would look for at first anyway.

- Michael

30 sec on a IBM T23 clunker, P3 1.13GHz, 512MB ram, 16MB S3 graphics.

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Hi Danny, thanks for testing it. That's somewhat amazing that MoI actually runs on that machine at all, that must be something around 8 years old or so?

The S3 graphics makes me wince a bit, but I'm glad that it works! :)

- Michael

Zbrush has this same capability! :) Working on old computer!

Hi Michael,
> That's somewhat amazing that MoI actually runs on that machine at all, that must be something around 8 years old or so?

Yeah, it's our general home hack laptop that lays around the house on standby for when someone what's to jump on the net quickly, I loaded MoI to see how it would run and for when I have a look at models that people post on the forum as I'm lying on the couch having a browse, it works great for that sort of stuff :)

> The S3 graphics makes me wince a bit, but I'm glad that it works! :)
It's ok for simple things, but yeah, when you load heavier models, surfaces tend to break up and manipulation starts to get jittery, but still works.

Cheers

Hi anis i have tryed your model took 16s

AMD ATHLON X2 3800
2GB RAM

I tried it again after restart my laptop and took 12 - 18 sec as well...

Thanks Guys...