cant render an image bigger than 2600 pixels, help

[sygboe]

hi I cant seem to render an image bigger than 2600 pixels.

when i try it just comes out black.

 

i went on a vray course a while back, and we did an image 4000 pixels and it didnt seem to have any problems.

 

i've been trying .vrimg too.

 

is there a limit? i have 3ds max xp 32 bit. 2 gigs of ram. quad core

 

it's just frustrating waiting 4 hours for nothing. then trying some other settings.

[Trevor Tizard]

I always render larger than 2600 wide for production. Does the file render OK at a lower size?

[sygboe]

It's to go on a website in the end.

 

it's rendering fine at 2600, but goes blank if i try to go any higher.

 

i do want it about 4000, just for my purposes too.

[WAcky]

Any chance you're using Distributed Rendering?

That's a low amount of Ram for a large image like that, then again it could be empty.

Any vray warnings in the vray messages window?

Have you tried just doing a basic teapot scene at a large size? You'll know then whether it's a scene issue or a global vray issue.

[Trevor Tizard]

Have you asked on the chaos forums?

[bijoy]

i think u have to turn off the frame buffer for now and render it out in max default window. then just do any post editing in PhotoShop.

[Tom Hamelrijckx]

What happens if you just region-render a part of the image?

[Trevor Tizard]

Have tried the .vrimg route, with the frame buffer turnrd off and just the preview.

[sygboe]

thanks for the replies.

 

i tried just a teapot on a plane and could render at 8000 pixels.

 

so it's to do with my scene, lighting and materials.

 

i'll just go through and try to optimise it.

[Chris Potts]

Try on Raytrace Acceleration tab > swtich BSP to BSP2 from Render Setting.

 

It same happen to me before.

[Nic H]

more ram

turn off displacement

try dmc rather than LC