Memory problems due to complicated furniture

[jeremy ramsay]

Hello all, any help would be appreciated. I'm using Max with Vray. I have a large traditional living room to illustrate with a lot of memory heavy furniture downloaded. My thoughts were to change them all to Vray proxies in the hope of not crashing my comp but strange things have started happening, sofas are disappearing or splitting up. Ive tried using multi res to reduce the original mesh but Ive a feeling I'm starting to reach the limit due to how long it's taking already to render. Can anyone tell me if making the furniture proxies was even the right thing to do in the first place and any tips on what to try would help a lot.

Many Thanks. Jez

[SunGlare]

Give some details. Ram, mesh size, file size, or more.

I remember working on really big files in 3D Studio DOS 4.

My 1.6 GB HDD was full.

 

Try dynamic mem limit, its in vray settings.

[jeremy ramsay]

Ive got 3.40 GHz, 1GB ram

Pentium® 4 CPU

File size 150, 000 KB

Vertices - 255136

Faces - 317898

Memory usage - (Physical) - 864.3M/1023.5M

(Virtual) - 1393.3M/2462.0M

 

Can you tell me if converting all the complicated furniture to Proxies was the right thing to do? Also are you aware of problems like parts of a sofa simply missing when rendered even though it is in the viewport?

Is it more reliable to Multi Res all complicated geometry?

This is a big job and I don't want to let the client down.

Many thanks. Jez

[SunGlare]

This is a big job and I don't want to let the client down.

 

I've been to NC many times last year, great city. We've done eldon sq. phase 3. Where argos-xtra was b4.

 

First. Buy ram. See chaos vray system req.

Google for ram, it is really cheap now. Its fraction of licence price. One mem brand have online store now , I bought there all my machines upgrades. 1 day shipmnt.

 

File size 150mb, that a lot for 1GB system.

Proxy everything you can. If still bottlenecked, split render. Split GI. (Prepare GI at low res - save to file - than render hi res with GI from file).

If still brakes/crashes, split render, and then try your luck with photo match. GI can do nasty things when splitting frame.

Be aware when rendering big size. after overnight render it can give you save error due to low ram capacity.

 

Good luck with budgeting your jobs.

[jeremy ramsay]

Many thanks, strange to hear from someone so far away talking about my town let alone the shopping centre. I hope you got a chance to experience our full on night life, it's getting too much for me now.

My dynamic mem limit was set to 400mb, that must be the default, is it an idea to double that or more?

Pleased you cleared up the Proxy thing and I'll try your suggestions regarding other tips.

 

and I have been getting the save errors after an overnight.

 

Thanks again for your help.

Jez