Resizer Plug-In

[glorybound]

Save yourself time by using the Renderpeople Resizer plug-in

Resize and relink hundreds of textures in your 3D scene within only a couple of seconds. Never worry about slowing down your system through lots of high-res textures again. And the best part is that it’s free for everyone!

https://renderpeople.com/plugin/

[joconnell]

Or use multires tx or exr.

[glorybound]

I am not familiar with those.

[joconnell]

So with either, you can run an image through a little command line utility. It creates a new copy of your image which has the original res of the file, a half res, quarter res, eight res and so on all the way down to a minimum amount of pixels you specify. When the renderer starts a frame, it looks at how far away something is and loads data from the file at a res that's good enough for the distance from camera - it's maybe adding some overhead to the render but it's keeping your memory requirements lower. You use the vray hdri bitmap loader for each.

[glorybound]

I'll play with all of them.

[joconnell]

The rule is exr is better for 16 bit + images like hdr's and exr files that have float data, .tx or multires tif is better for things that started off as 8 bit images and don't need higher colour depth.

[glorybound]

The Renderpeople script is pretty slick. Basically, you select your texture from your scene, and pick at what dimension to optimize it. It'll optimize the image, save as, and re-path.

[AlexP]

This could be pretty cool for taking stuff to Unreal.

[mitviz]

i dont think it gets any easier than this