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While working on a big scene i've noticed that something causes the live viewer to refresh too much (like when changing post processing parameters, or camera imager response).
After exploring my scene a bit i've noticed that what causing it is Vertex map operator inside my xpresso tag - I'm using it to drive weight map from one object to another.
I guess what causing the frequent updates it is the fact that the Vertex map operator is reading the points of the object every frame - and that might cause the unwanted updates from Octane.

Simplified scene attached.
Any ideas Ahmet? maybe a workaround?

Thanks!

probably nothing's to do. some operators or tags can cause this updates and it's related with C4D. it happens when you do somethings but doesn't show to users.

Bummer

I'm talking without checking your scene. but that's a truth as I said for some objects. I had spent many times to avoid thus. unfortunately things become much complicated and heavy on plugin side. that's a pain for programmers.
This is similar reason which causes slowdowns with generators, deformers,etc... people think that's a opengl slowdown but in fact that's continual refreshes with these objects. but only we can see that while working in codes.

Got it, thanks.

One more thing ׳d like to get your opinion on - Do you think that moving my xpressso setup to python will solve those frequent refreshes?
What i׳m doing in the xpresso tag is very simple - just reading one weight map and feed the data to another.
If i׳ll open a python tag - Create a list from obj point count - go throw the points and then "wmap.SetAllHighlevelData(warray)" to feed the other object with that list - It should behave different regarding unwanted refreshes?

Can't know. Atm i stopped to work on 2.0 versions. Maybe a few simple fix not else. You may try to be happy with this updates.
I can reinvestigate this on next gens;)
But to force somethings can cause unstabilities .

Thanks! i׳ll wait for v3