Volume Node disable vieport refresh Tweet

[yfripp]

Hi,

Would it be possible to implement a method to disable dag evaluations of the octane Volume Node (similar to the enable button on nparticles etc). The processing of reading the VDBs in is really slowing down maya playback speed even when the volumes are hidden and force Dummy size is turned on. The nodes seem to always be processed no matter what, I've tried hiding them, placing them on there on display layer and turning that off, creating a empty render layer yet they are always processing in the BG.

I checked this using the profiler in Maya to see what was being evaluated causing the slowdown.

Ideally if there was a method that could place the Volumes in the scene as a basic bounding box, without causing the entire volume to be always evaluated as well as a a method that enables them to be evaluated if that is required (Once a viewport display of them gets created).

Thanks
Juri