Illustrator tracing broken - how to fix? URGENT!

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Hi!I have a job going where the client needs me to supply them with SVG masks made from 3D file renders. Even if I plug a stupid-high resolution file into illustrator - it just messes up and doesn't see all the detail, which is dumb. The following is the best I could get tweaking the sliders around:So then I had a thought: What if illustrator is limiting the max resolution of Live trace to save on performance somehow? So what I did now was I took the SAME image and I cropped in on the details I showed in the image above. The details have the same pixel count, just that the overall image is now cropped to reduce the total amount of pixels. Here's what I got with DEFAULT trace settings this time:This is now an ACCURATE trace.So  the trace tool is fine, but what's happening is somewhere it limits the max resolution for whatever reason and ends up producing a pile of sh*t when I use it. And, needless to say, I need this to deliver a job.But I can't use it like this because that would mean me having to split a each B/W mask image into 6-8 tiles, tracing and then somehow merging back into one vector (surely not without mistakes) - completely and utterly unusable workflow!Is there a way to throw this pixel conservation into the bin and make tracing perform as expected? Maybe a setting somewhere or a script I can inject? My machine has a GTX 1080Ti 11GB GPU, an overclocked i7-5960X 8-core CPU at 4.5GHz and 64GB RAM - I don't really care for or want any performance-saving "features" that mess up a job like this...Thanks!

Kris Hunt · Accepted Answer

What if you did it in Photoshop instead? Create a selection of the silhouette and then convert it to a path.

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Not my intention. Many people assume that posting in the forums will reach the "programmers" at Adobe. There is a lot wrong with this assumption, starting with the assumption that programmers decide what to fix, or that programmers come to the forums... but even if your comments are seen by someone at Adobe and commented on, that isn't a bug report/feature request. There is a department who deals with these things, and they are counted and influence decisions only if they arrive by the proper channels. Multiple reports are not just good, they may be essential. There is some evidence that bugs are only fixed if a lot of people "vote" for it,

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