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I got a pretty bad PC. I can handle max 3 characters at once. but my project got 7 characters in which 5 characters appear for only 5 seconds.
i am looking if i can delete them after their work is over and they step off screen.

Set them invisible when you don't need them.

slowtiger wrote:Set them invisible when you don't need them.

Does that minimize the effect on rendering?

Making things invisible should help performance and rendering speed.

I'm not completely sure about this, but I think it reduces my rendering times. Could be I'm just waving dead chickens here.

You might also try Layer Comps and output each character in its own pass. I know this makes each render go a lot faster and it probably uses less resources. It also makes it easier/faster if you need to update only one character or element later.

Also, if you output to images sequences, it should take fewer resources than rendering to a single movie file plus the usual Moho animation processes.

You can then assemble the comp in a compositing program (preferred) or, alternatively, you can import the image sequences into a new Moho scene and render that. This should allow you to render with all the characters merged on a low-performance system because now Moho doesn't need to calculate rigs, keyframe interpolations, and other processor intensive tasks. I generally prefer compositing in a third-party app like After Effects because I have more options for fx and lighting. It's also a whole lot faster if I need motion blur in a layer or scene.

FYI, my earliest projects 'Scareplane' and 'HLF' could get pretty CPU heavy but I animated and rendered much of those projects this way on a small laptop with only 4GB of RAM without issue. (For HLF, I had to do the compositing on a desktop though, but that was because the job was full HD (1920 x 1080) with motion blur applied.)