Blender taking ages to import meshes.

[Ark of Truth]

I'm trying to import Priestess Of Dibella from Thor's thread here into blender to give it the BB feature but its taking for ever to load in (over) 10mins.

Normally importing meshes is done in less then a minute for me.

Any idea why this one is taking forever?

[Symon]

Not familiar with that mesh but:

I've found that the time taken to load a Nif depends a lot on the number of NiTriShapes or NiTriStrips. It can also be badly effected by extraneous nodes.

Examine the Nif in NifSkope and see how many NiTriShapes/Strips there are. Could explain it. Also, look out for redundant nodes and remove them in NifSkope. That helps a lot.

[Thorazine]

For me, it takes forever to do anything that has a high vertex count. I've had things that take an hour just to import. Bone weight Copy and exporting can be just as bad.

[Ark of Truth]

Well that at least its not just me then