rendeing hi-res aerials

[maxkid]

Hi guys,

I am working on max7 ,trying to render a hi -res aerial photo ,it is 40 mb file ,i also croped it and got it to 10 mb size still it gives memory error in 3dmax7 ----any idea how do i deal wit this aerial map

1) it is aerial jpg image with 12,947 by 23,729 pixels i got this down to

7,540 by 15,000 pixels ,still it does not

render......it give error satinbg not enough memory ,my mchine has 1 gb ram and mora than 10 gb hard disk free......

wonder if you could give any idea or feedback................

cheers,

maxkid

[frank1331]

I would try to lower the dpi of the aerial. (Not sure if this is what you did to reduce the size originally) Also make sure the aerial is in a jpeg format, that will compress the size some. 40 mb is a huge file, I've never seen any photo that big before.

 

Good luck

[jkletzien]

Maxkid, are you using this iamge as a map, or a background?

If you are using as a background I would slap a low res version 200x400 into max and then replace with the high res version in post. If you are using as a map than you may have to do some juggling, breaking the image apart and using a blend material between low res and high res pieces of it - based on how close you get to various parts.

A file of that resolution is not going to be friendly to your machine or your render times.