Hi Michael,
Is it possible to "pre-type" select in the scene browser??

When trying to load large mega files, hiding edges can really help the weight of the load and model (even faces). At the moment, I can fail at loading a large file, that would probably come in if I could get the edges hidden on import???

Maybe the import is choking before it is even trying to generate the display of the edges??

Hi Burr well there isn't any way to select something before it actually exists...

The edge display should not likely make or break an import anyway - hiding all the edges can speed up the number of frames per second of the display but hiding them should not have much impact on memory consumption. They're more compute intensive than memory intensive.

You can try making a coarser display mesh for the surface display though, to do that go to Options > View > Meshing parameters and set "Mesh angle" to 25 degrees and uncheck "Add detail to inflections" that will make a coarser surface display mesh and that one can help reduce memory consumption.

- Michael

Yeah, I was grasping at straws.. I had set my display mesh to 40 and no inflections and would jump off at 1.6 gigs of ram or so.. I'm still on 32 bit xp...

They are large files, like 1.3 gigs and such....

It was a rediculous need anyway...

Hi Burr, yeah your best bet would be to go to 64-bit windows, that will then make twice as much memory available for MoI to use.

But a 1.3 gig file is extremely huge, it would probably work better to get it exported in some smaller different chunks instead of one single ginormous file.

- Michael