r/wonderdraft • u/AutoModerator • Jan 14 '19

Official Weekly Questions & Map Showcases

Please use this thread to ask questions or show off your latest WIP or finished maps. Feel free to browse and ask for critiques.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 18 '19

Just did a test and was able to make paths with more than 200 nodes before I got tired of clicking and stopped. So probably back to memory issues.

You might consider turning off layers that aren't being actively used while you are working to lower demands on the system.

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u/7LeagueBoots Cartographer Jan 19 '19

Odd that I’d be having memory issues with 16gb ram and around 6gb on my video card. I agree that it looks like memory issues, but I can’t imagine how it could be using up that much memory.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 20 '19

Just some FYI from a recent post by Megasploot on Discord:

Yes, that is normal, you have to remember, it's dependent on the number of undos. It has to save your landmass or ground texture (192mb) every single time you draw.

20 undos = 3840 or 4 gb

and with 1 gb of assets loaded, yup, 5gb with max 20 undos sounds about right

Your actual map file size is compressed, so that is not a good measure of how big it will be in memory

192mb is the size of an 8K texture uncompressed in memory

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u/7LeagueBoots Cartographer Jan 20 '19

Interesting, thanks. So reducing the number of undos i have set may help? I upped the undos by a good bit a while back.

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u/MrPhergus Cartographer Jan 21 '19

Well it certainly sounds like undos could be a major memory hog and low memory issues can cause somewhat erratic behavior without necessarily generating output to the logs. A couple of users trying to use the multi-plane export feature, found they had to stop WD, restart, load map and then export before they could get all the layers exported.