3dsMax 2019.1 has been release with many improved features.

Many new features has been added to Alembic/OSL/Fluid/Arnold. Python and Project got some improvement. Plus 94 fixes.

One of the item among “Bringing your ideas to life in 3ds Max 2019.1 Update” was “Attaching large amounts of meshes is up to 7 times faster”.

So, I decided to test if it is true. The enhancement was done for Collapse utility. I think 3dsMax dev choose to enhance this because this is the only attach which keeps explicit normals.

I test total 4 files. I open the file and attach all geometries.

The result is… drum roll…

05_TM_manyLowRes

Obj:5616 Verts:99,686 Faces: 165,505

2019 : 3.335s

2018 : 32.724

9.81 times faster

08_Static_Many

Obj:19913 Verts:2,264,540 Faces: 3,265,430

2019 : 11.2s

2018 : 2236s

199.35 times faster

bistro

Obj:2429 Verts:2,766,360 Faces: 3,850.480

2019 : 9.5s

2018 : 546s

57.23 times faster

EmeraldSquare

Obj:29596 Verts:9,065,430 Faces: 7,722,170

2019 : 274s

2018 : 19980s

72.95 times faster

It is actually far better than 7 times!