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Decimator crashes DAZ

Klling CopKlling Cop Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I bought the Decimator Plugin to reduce the number of polygons.
Actually it works well.
But the great problem is that it really often crashes my DAZ :( Especially items with a high mesh resolution cause very often a crash when I click on 'Prepare to Decimate' or 'Set Weights'.

My workaround is to edit only one item after the other and to save as many times as possible.
But even then it crashes quite a lot of times.

Does anyone have the same trouble with this plugin or knows what's the problem?

Comments

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    It might be a memory problem. What OS are you using? What version of DS exactly (Help > About DAZ Studio)?

    What are your system specs, RAM, processor etc.?

  • Klling CopKlling Cop Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    JimmyC_2009 said:
    It might be a memory problem. What OS are you using? What version of DS exactly (Help > About DAZ Studio)?

    What are your system specs, RAM, processor etc.?

    Mac OS X 10.7.5 and DAZ Version 4.5.1.6 Pro Edition (64 bit)

    system specs are
    processor: 3.06 GHz Intel i3
    RAM: 16 GB (right now 4,5 GB available)
    graphic board: ATI Radeon HD 4670 256 MB

    you think the problem might be not having enough (free) RAM?

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    I don't know anything much about Macs, but you seem to be using a lot of your available memory on other processes. I would think that Decimator will want as much memory as you can give it since it has to do a lot of work there.

    Can you release some more of your available memory, and give that a try?

    A Mac user may come along with a better suggestion.

  • john-2238994john-2238994 Posts: 2
    edited December 1969

    I have the exact same problem.
    High res meshes, you just have to decimate like 2-3% at a time and save until you get it right.

  • dromano11dromano11 Posts: 3

    I've been monitoring the crashes with the decimator and they all seem to be an Access Viaolation at some point. For those that don't understand how memory is managed in an OS, this basically means that it is trying to access memory in a way which corrupts the heap (the memory space of the application) so when the application tries to access a memory address which is store in the heap it might have been overwriten with a bad address which causes the crash. On some of the crashes I can see that the decimator is trying to access memory directly and this can definetly cause these types of issue. 

    From what I read in the decimator's description it does not look like DAZ was the only one working on it so I don't know if they can fix it or not. I just which they did, cause working like this really sucks.

    In the crash log below you can see where they are trying to access memory directly however this may or may not be the reason for the crash. Without source code and instruments attached to the process to turn on heap bounds I can not tell.

    Process:               DAZStudio [61249]
    Path:                  /Applications/DAZ 3D/*/DAZStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/DAZStudio
    Identifier:            com.DAZ.DAZStudio
    Version:               4.8.0.59 (4.8.0.59)
    Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
    Parent Process:        ??? [1]
    Responsible:           DAZStudio [61249]
    User ID:               501

    Date/Time:             2016-01-21 13:11:56.341 -0500
    OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11.1 (15B42)
    Report Version:        11
    Anonymous UUID:        AB91162C-E727-9793-162A-FC57F2213F75

    Sleep/Wake UUID:       B330257F-7DB6-4D08-8CA1-3855F9FFEE7B

    Time Awake Since Boot: 260000 seconds
    Time Since Wake:       7600 seconds

    System Integrity Protection: enabled

    Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

    Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
    Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000148fe4000
    Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

    VM Regions Near 0x148fe4000:
        CoreAnimation          0000000148fe2000-0000000148fe3000 [    4K] rw-/rwx SM=ZER  
    --> 
        CoreAnimation          0000000148fe6000-0000000148fe7000 [    4K] rw-/rwx SM=ZER  

    Application Specific Information:
    Performing @selector(qtDispatcherToQAction:) from sender NSMenuItem 0x1343effa0

    Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
    0   libsystem_platform.dylib          0x00007fff840e2c49 _platform_bzero$VARIANT$Haswell + 41
    1   QtCore                            0x00000001041f67d8 qMemSet(void*, int, unsigned long) + 24
    2   libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100c84391 DzSkinBinding::applyScale(DzVertexMesh&, DzNode&) + 661
    3   libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100c8bf2d DzSkinBinding::apply(DzVertexMesh&, DzNode&) + 101
    4   libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100944276 DzObject::buildWSGeometry(DzNode&, bool, DzVertexMesh*) + 282
    5   libdzcore.dylib                   0x000000010094210e DzObject::update(DzNode&, bool) + 784
    6   libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100b11cee DzScene::update() + 50
    7   libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100dcacc2 DzUndoList::undo() + 722
    8   libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100dcb148 DzUndoStack::undo() + 230
    9   libdzcore.dylib                   0x00000001001f7c19 DzAction::qt_static_metacall(QObject*, QMetaObject::Call, int, void**) + 219
    10  QtCore                            0x000000010430b381 QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) + 2001
    11  QtGui                             0x000000010459afa2 QAction::activate(QAction::ActionEvent) + 194
    12  QtGui                             0x0000000104551ac5 -[QCocoaMenuLoader qtDispatcherToQAction:] + 69
    13  libsystem_trace.dylib             0x00007fff8b873082 _os_activity_initiate + 75
    14  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff8662d811 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 460
    15  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff8662d5ab -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 336
    16  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff8662d30b -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 114
    17  libsystem_trace.dylib             0x00007fff8b873082 _os_activity_initiate + 75
    18  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff8662c1f9 -[NSMenu performKeyEquivalent:] + 357
    19  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff8662b3a0 -[NSApplication _handleKeyEquivalent:] + 920
    20  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff865511ed -[NSApplication sendEvent:] + 4274
    21  QtGui                             0x00000001045525f0 -[QNSApplication sendEvent:] + 80
    22  com.apple.AppKit                  0x00007fff863b7d9a -[NSApplication run] + 796
    23  QtGui                             0x000000010455af0f QEventDispatcherMac::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 775
    24  QtCore                            0x00000001042f2db8 QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 394
    25  QtCore                            0x00000001042f6183 QCoreApplication::exec() + 175
    26  libdzcore.dylib                   0x0000000100242c54 DzApp::doExec() + 100
    27  libdzcore.dylib                   0x000000010024e5cb DzApp::run(DzApp::GraphicsMode) + 355
    28  com.DAZ.DAZStudio                 0x00000001000015f6 main + 496
    29  com.DAZ.DAZStudio                 0x00000001000013e4 start + 52

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,957

    Hello,

    I cannot come with any good tips. I've reported this crash on OS X and the workaround I've been using when I've been using it (to create low poly background figures) has been to decimate the same way you walk on eggs, careful, careful. 

    I stopped using it, but maybe it's worth bug reporting again.

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